BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Veritopicon//Fifteen Minutes a Day//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fifteen Minutes a Day\, 2027 X-WR-CALDESC:The daily readings of Fifteen Minutes a Day\, the reading guid e to the Harvard Classics\, each linked to its pages on veritopicon.com. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:P7D BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270102 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Franklin's Advice for the New Year DESCRIPTION:"Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought\; perform withou t fail what you resolve"—was one of the rules for success framed by Amer ica's first "self-made" man.\n\nRead: FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. I\, pp . 79-85\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270103 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: School-Day Poems of John Milton DESCRIPTION:(First edition of Milton's collected poems published Jan. 2\, 1 645.)\n\nAt the age of sixteen\, Milton first appeared before the public e ye as a promising young poet. These early verses\, written while he was a boy in school\, indicate his brilliant future.\n\nRead: MILTON'S POEMS Vol . 4\, pp. 7-18\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Cicero on Friendship DESCRIPTION:(Cicero born Jan. 3\, 106 B. C.)\n\n"Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship"— such is the high value put upon thi s great human relationship by the most famous orator of Rome.\n\nRead: Cic ero ON FRIENDSHIP Vol. 9\, pp. 16-26\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/january.html#jan-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270105 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Flounder Fish Story DESCRIPTION:(Jacob Grimm\, elder of the famous Grimm brothers\, born Jan. 4 \, 1785.)\n\nA fisherman\, so the story goes\, once caught a flounder that spoke\, begging to be released. This was granted\, whereupon the fisherma n's wife demanded that it grant her one miracle after another\, until even the flounder was disgusted.\n\nRead: GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 83 -90\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270106 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Soaring Eagle and Contented Stork DESCRIPTION:(Byron arrived in Greece to fight for Greek freedom\, Jan. 5\, 1824.)\n\nMazzini labored for the freedom of Italy\, but was exiled. Byron and Goethe also battled for liberty. Mazzini wrote an essay in which he c ompared Byron to a soaring eagle and Goethe to a contented stork.\n\nRead: Mazzini's BYRON AND GOETHE Vol. 32\, pp. 377-396\n\nhttps://veritopicon.c om/reading-plan/january.html#jan-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270107 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Warned by Hector's Ghost DESCRIPTION:(H. Schliemann\, discoverer of ancient Troy\, born Jan. 6\, 182 2.)\n\nIn the dead of night Hector's ghost appeared to warn Aineas of the impending doom to come upon the walled city of Troy. Eneas lifted his aged father on his back and\, taking his son by the hand\, sought safety in fl ight. Off to Latium!\n\nRead: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 109-127\n\nhtt ps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270108 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: If He Yawned\, She Lost Her Head! DESCRIPTION:The Sultan had a habit of beheading each dawn his beautiful bri de of the night before\, until he encountered Scheherazade. Cleverly she s aved her life a thousand and one mornings.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE N IGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 5-13\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.h tml#jan-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270109 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Trying the Patience of Job DESCRIPTION:~ God was pleased with the piety of Job\, but Satan accredited the piety to Job's prosperity and happiness. So a trial was made. See how each succeeding affliction visited on Job shook the depths of his nature\, and how he survived.\n\nRead: THE BOOK OF JOB Vol. 44\, pp. 71-87\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270110 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Treasure Hunt in Nombre de Dios DESCRIPTION:(Drake died at Nombre de Dios\, Jan. 9\, 1596.)\n\nWith only fi fty-two men\, Sir Francis Drake conceives the idea of attacking his archen emy\, Spain\, at her most vulnerable point the treasure at Nombre de Dios. \n\nRead: Nichol's SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED Vol. 33\, pp. 135-145\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270111 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Where Love Lies Waiting DESCRIPTION:King Pantheus of Thebes contended against Dionysus\, the God\, for the adoration of the Theban women. The god was winning by bewitching t he women when the king interceded. Euripides tells the story in a masterpi ece of Greek drama.\n\nRead: Euripides' THE BACCHAE Vol. 8\, pp. 368-372\n \nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270112 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Hamilton—Father of Wall Street DESCRIPTION:(Alexander Hamilton born Jan. 11\, 1757.)\n\nHamilton organized the Treasury Department. He penned most of the Federalist papers\, which were greatly influential in bringing New York into the Union—the first s tep toward its eminent position in national and world finance.\n\nRead: TH E FEDERALIST Vol. 43\, pp. 199-207\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /january.html#jan-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270113 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Is Good Taste? DESCRIPTION:(Edmund Burke born Jan. 12\, 1729.)\n\nA Turkish sultan\, relat es Burke\, when shown a picture of the beheaded John the Baptist\, praised many things\, but pointed out one gruesome defect. Did this observation s how the sultan to be an inferior judge of art?\n\nRead: Burke ON TASTE Vol . 24\, pp. 11-26\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan- 12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270114 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Rousseau Seeks Sanctuary in England DESCRIPTION:(Jean Jacques Rousseau arrived in England\, Jan. 13\, 1766.)\n\ nRousseau taught that men were not created free and equal. To substantiate his daring beliefs he traced man's history back to his primitive beginnin gs. For his teachings\, Rousseau was forced to seek refuge in England.\n\n Read: Rousseau's INQUIRY ON INEQUALITY Vol. 34\, pp. 215-228\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270115 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The First Step Toward Independence DESCRIPTION:(Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted Jan. 14\, 1639.)\n\n The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is "the first written constitution a s a permanent limitation on governmental power\, known in history." It is the work of the Connecticut Yankee.\n\nRead: THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CON NECTICUT Vol. 43\, pp. 60-65\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/janua ry.html#jan-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270116 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Moving Finger Writes" DESCRIPTION:("Rubatyat of Omar Khayyam" first published Jan. 15\, 18 59.)\n \nOmar Khayyam laughed and enjoyed the good things of life. His "Rubaiyat\ ," the most popular philosophic poem\, is the best of all books to dip int o for an alluring thought.\n\nRead: THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Vol. 41\, pp. 943-953\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270117 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Old Woman and the Wine Jar DESCRIPTION:An old woman once found a wine jar\, but it was empty. She snif fed at the mouth of the jar and said: "What memories cling 'round the inst ruments of our pleasure."\n\nRead: AESOP'S FABLES Vol. 17\, pp. 43-44\; al so pp. 31-43\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Franklin's Family Tree DESCRIPTION:(Benjamin Franklin born Jan. 17\, 1706.)\n\nGood middle-class p eople\, Franklin boasts\, were his ancestors. Some have attributed his gen ius to his being the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations . In his famous autobiography\, he reveals quaint family history.\n\nRead: FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 1 \, pp. 5-15\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/january.html#jan-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270119 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Origin of Yale 'Brekekekex-Ko-ax" DESCRIPTION:"Shall I crack any of those old jokes\, master\, at which the a udience never fails to laugh?" Like an up-to-date vaudeville team\, Xanthi as and Dionysus start off a dialogue that mingles wit and poetry with humo r and keen satire.\n\nRead: Aristophanes' THE FROGS Vol. 8\, pp. 439-449\n \nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270120 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Poe on Poetry DESCRIPTION:(Edgar Allan Poe born Jan. 19\, 1809.)\n\nRegarded in Europe as one of America's greatest writers\, Poe originated the detective story\, perfected the mystery short. story\, and produced America's first great po ems. Here he unravels the fabric of which all poetry is woven.\n\nRead: Po e's THE POETIC PRINCIPLE Vol. 28\, pp. 371-380\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/ reading-plan/january.html#jan-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270121 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Ah! It Is St. Agnes' Eve—" DESCRIPTION:(St. Agnes' Eve\, Jan. 20.)\n\nAt midnight on the eve of St. Ag nes there were certain solemn ceremonies which all virgins must perform to have "visions of delight and soft adorings from their loves." Porphyro to ok advantage of this custom to win his bride.\n\nRead: Keats' EVE OF ST. A GNES Vol. 41\, pp. 883-893\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january .html#jan-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270122 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Nightingale's Healing Melody DESCRIPTION:The Emperor of China lies on his deathbed grieving for the song of his favorite bird. Hark\, the song! It charms\, coaxes\, and bribes De ath to depart. It brings new life to the master.\n\nRead: ANDERSEN'S TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 301-310\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.htm l#jan-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270123 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A King's Pleasure Now Yours DESCRIPTION:(Corneille elected to French Academy\, Jan. 22\, 1647.)\n\nThe classic plays of French literature are produced to-day precisely as when t hey were given for the resplendent kings they were written to please. We a re fortunate to have in English\, excellent translations of these noble pl ays.\n\nRead: Corneille's POLYEUCTE Vol. 26\, pp. 77-87\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270124 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pascal Knew Men and Triangles DESCRIPTION:(Pascal publishes "Provincial Letters\," Jan. 23\, 1656.) ao\n\ nPascal\, the keen-minded philosopher and mathematician\, fathomed the hum an traits of man's nature with the same accurate measurements which made h im famous in the realm of geometry. Read his searching analysis of man's c onceit.\n\nRead: Pascal's THE ART OF PERSUASION Vol. 48\, pp. 400-411\n\nh ttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270125 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Odysseus Silenced the Sirens DESCRIPTION:When his ship approached the siren's rock\, Odysseus stuffed th e ears of his crew with wax and had himself bound to the mast that he migh t hear the alluring voice of the siren and yet not wreck his ship on the e nchanted rock.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEY Vol. 22\, pp. 165-173\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270126 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Field Mouse Made Famous DESCRIPTION:(Robert Burns born Jan. 25\, 1759.)\n\nA humble Scotchman\, plo wing his fields\, turns over the nest of a frightened mouse. He apologizes with the deepest sincerity and explains how "the best-laid schemes 0' mic e an' men gang aft agley."\n\nRead: TO A MOUSE and Burns' other poems Vol. 6\, pp. 119-120\, 388-394\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january .html#jan-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270127 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: In the Cradle of Civilization DESCRIPTION:A king who entombed his daughter in a golden cow—the worship of the bull and the cat—scandal of the court and the gossip of the templ es is given by Herodotus in his delightful story of old Egypt.\n\nRead: He rodotus' AN ACCOUNT OF EGYPT Vol. 33\, pp. 65-75\n\nhttps://veritopicon.co m/reading-plan/january.html#jan-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270128 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dante and Beatrice in Paradise DESCRIPTION:(Dante victim of political persecution in Florence\, Jan. 27\, 1302.)\n\nDante fell madly in love with Beatrice at first sight\; but it i s doubted if he ever spoke to her in this world. He tells of his happy mee ting with Beatrice in Paradise.\n\nRead: Dante's DIVINE COMEDY Vol. 20\, p p. 267-279\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270129 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Man's Wings DESCRIPTION:A pure heart\, says Thomas 4 Kempis\, comprehends the very dept hs of Heaven and Hell. And it is by the wings of simplicity and purity tha t man is lifted above all earthly things.\n\nRead: Thomas a Kempis Vol. 7\ , pp. 242-249\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270130 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Visits the Land of Fire DESCRIPTION:(Darwin married Emma Wedgewood\, Jan. 29\, 1839.)\n\nSouth of P atagonia is Tierra del Fuego—"The Land of Fire." The natives of that pri mitive country are to-day almost extinct. Darwin made a careful and vitall y interesting study of that land and its ill-fated inhabitants.\n\nRead: D arwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, 209-221\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/ reading-plan/january.html#jan-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270131 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: First Problem Play Popular DESCRIPTION:(Sophocles died at Athens\, Jan. 30\, 405 B. C.)\n\nAntigone\, an orphan princess\, defies a king's mandate and risks her life to do her duty to her brother. What is this duty which her brother calls her to perf orm and the king forbids?\n\nRead: Sophocles' ANTIGONE Vol. 8\, pp. 255-26 6\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jan-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What "Don Quixote" Really Slew DESCRIPTION:Slayer of windmills\, rescuer of fair damsels in distress\, ecc entric Don Quixote\, scores of years behind his time\, set out on a mad qu est of knight-errantry. Worlds of fun and killing satire are in this absor bing story of Cervantes.\n\nRead: DON QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp. 60-67\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/january.html#jan-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270202 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: King Arthur's Knights Find Holy Grail DESCRIPTION:The intrepid Knights of the Round Table were startled by "crack ling and crying of thunder" which rang through the great hall of the castl e. Then there entered "The Holy Grail covered with white samite."\n\nRead: Malory's THE HOLY GRAIL Vol. 35\, pp. 112-123\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/ reading-plan/february.html#feb-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270203 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man" DESCRIPTION:(Shakespeare's twins—Hamnet and Judith—baptized Feb. 2\, 15 85.)\n\nBefore his son\, Laertes\, departs for a foreign country\, Poloniu s advises him as to his conduct and dress\, while Hamlet\, the king's son\ , has to learn by experience.\n\nRead: Shakespeare's HAMLET Vol. 46\, pp. 107-120\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270204 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A House of Mirth and Revelry DESCRIPTION:(Ben Jonson receives life pension from James I\, Feb. 3\, 1619. )\n\nWhile the cat's away the mice will play. Boisterous and ludicrous hap penings occur in a house left in charge of a servant. But in midst of merr iment the master returns.\n\nRead: Jonson's THE ALCHEMIST Vol. 47\, pp. 54 3-558\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270205 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Genius\, a Secret to Itself" DESCRIPTION:(Thomas Carlyle died Feb. 4\, 1881.)\n\nThus wrote Carlyle\, wh o affirms that great minds are unconscious of their stupendous strength. A nd each of us has his own peculiar mental attributes.\n\nRead: Carlyle's C HARACTERISTICS Vol. 25\, pp. 319-327\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/february.html#feb-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270206 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Diamonds\, Diamonds Everywhere! DESCRIPTION:Trapped in a valley filled with huge diamonds guarded by venomo us serpents\, Sindibad devised a clever means of escaping with many of the glittering jewels.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 243 -250\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270207 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Charles Lamb Suggests To-day's Reading DESCRIPTION:(Christopher Marlowe born Feb. 6\, 1564.)\n\n"The reluctant pan gs of abdicating royalty in 'Edward' furnished hints which Shakespeare sca rcely improved in his 'Richard the Second\,' and the death scene of Marlow e's King moves to pity and terror.'—Cuartes Lams.\n\nRead: Marlowe's EDW ARD THE SECOND Vol. 46\, pp. 73-89\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /february.html#feb-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270208 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Letter from a Lion DESCRIPTION:(Samuel Johnson writes to Lord Chesterfield\, Feb. 7\, 1755.)\n \nJohnson was not always a conventional guest. Graciously treated\, he res ponded in like manner\, but offended\, Johnson could wield a pen dripping with vitriol.\n\nRead: LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD Vol. 39\, pp. 206-207\n \nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270209 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Tragic Death of a World-Famous Beauty DESCRIPTION:(Mary\, Queen of Scots\, beheaded Feb. 8\, 1587.)\n\n"But I\, t he Queen of a' Scotland\, maun lie in prison strang." Burns sings of poor Mary bound by chains\, yearning for the day when flowers would "bloom on h er peaceful grave."\n\nRead: BURNS' POEMS Vol. 6\, pp. 396-406\n\nhttps:// veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270210 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Rest Between Wars DESCRIPTION:Tacitus\, the historian\, visited the virile German tribes in t heir primitive homes on the banks of the Rhine. He was surprised to learn that the men so active and eager in war lolled in indolence during the int ervals between.\n\nRead: Tacitus ON GERMANY Vol. 33\, pp. 93-102\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270211 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: No Fancy for a Plain Gentleman DESCRIPTION:(William Congreve baptized Feb. 10\, 1670.)\n\nVoltaire once vi sited Congreve. 'This famous dramatist requested to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. "Had you been that I should never have come to see you\," Voltaire cynically replies.\n\nRead: Voltaire's LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH Vo l. 34\, pp. 130-140\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html# feb-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270212 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Queen Freezes Her Philosophy DESCRIPTION:(René Descartes died at Stockholm\, Feb. 11\, 1650.)\n\nDescar tes was slain through the eccentric whim of a queen who demanded that he t utor her in the freezing dawn in the dead of winter. His philosophy lives in this essay.\n\nRead: Descartes' DISCOURSE ON METHOD Vol. 34\, pp. 5-20\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270213 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Oxford Corrects Lincoln's Mistake DESCRIPTION:(Abraham Lincoln born Feb. 12\, 1809.)\n\nLincoln himself thoug ht his famous Gettysburg Address was a failure. To-day the whole world acc laims its greatness. Cast in bronze\, it hangs on the wall of Balliol Coll ege\, Oxford\, regarded as the perfection of English prose.\n\nRead: LINCO LN'S WRITINGS Vol. 43\, pp. 415-420\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pla n/february.html#feb-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270214 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Frank Story of an Amazing Life DESCRIPTION:(Benvenuto Cellini died Feb. 13\, 1570.)\n\nAt the age of fifty -eight Benvenuto Cellini shaved his head and retired to a monastery to wri te his own story of murder\, passion\, and great deeds of the Renaissance. His life is a vivid picture of the most colorful period in history\, a pe riod when statecraft and religion and black magic and assassination were n aively mingled in men's lives.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 31\, pp. 68-80\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270215 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Love Always Young DESCRIPTION:(St. Valentine's Day.)\n\nPascal—an original genius—purpose d to master everything that was new in art and science. He was a mathemati cian and scientist as well as a religious enthusiast and moralist\, and he shows a decidedly human side of his nature in this superb essay on Love.\ n\nRead: Pascal's DISCOURSE ON THE PASSION OF LOVE Vol. 48\, pp. 411-421\n \nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270216 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The World Well Lost? DESCRIPTION:(Mark Antony offers Caesar crown at Rome\, Feb. 15\, 44 B. C.)\ n\nThe romantic and heedless loves of Antony and Cleopatra figure prominen tly in history\, literature\, and drama. Dryden made a fascinating play fr om the story of Antony\, who sacrificed the leadership of Rome\, reputatio n\, and life itself for love of the Egyptian queen\, who followed him in d eath.\n\nRead: Dryden's ALL FOR LOVE Vol. 18\, pp. 53-69\n\nhttps://verito picon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270217 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Social Circles Among Ants DESCRIPTION:Ants have slaves who work for them. 'These slaves make the nest s\, feed the master ants\, tend the eggs\, and do the moving when a colony of ants migrate. Darwin minutely describes the habits and lives of the in dustrious ants and their marvelous social organization—a wonder to manki nd.\n\nRead: Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES Vol. 11\, pp. 264-268\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270218 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Death His Curtain Call DESCRIPTION:(Moliére died Feb. 17\, 1673.)\n\nWhile acting in one of his o wn plays\, Moliére was suddenly stricken and died shortly after the final curtain. He took an important réle in "Tartuffe" which introduces to lit erature a character as famous as Shakespeare's Falstaff.\n\nRead: Moliere' s TARTUFFE Vol. 26\, pp. 199-217\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/f ebruary.html#feb-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270219 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Lasting Peace with Great Britain DESCRIPTION:(Treaty with Great Britain proclaimed Feb. 18\, 1815.)\n\nAll A mericans should know this treaty which finally inaugurated an era of peace and good understanding with England. For over a hundred years this peace has been unbroken.\n\nRead: TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN Vol. 43\, pp. 255-26 4\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270220 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Earthly Experience of a Chinese Goddess DESCRIPTION:The thousandth celestial wife of the Garland God slipped and fe ll to earth\, where she took mortal form and served as an attendant in a t emple. Death finally released her and she went back to heaven to tell her lord of the ways of men.\n\nRead: BUDDHIST WRITINGS Vol. 45\, pp. 693-701\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270221 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Voltaire Observes the Quakers DESCRIPTION:Because the early Quakers shook\, trembled\, and quaked when th ey became inspired—they received the title of "Quakers." This sect attra cted the keen-minded Voltaire\, who made interesting notes on them during his visit to England.\n\nRead: Voltaire's LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH Vol. 34\, pp. 65-78\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270222 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Does Football Make a College? DESCRIPTION:(Cardinal Newman born Feb. 21\, 1801.)\n\nJust what makes a uni versity? A group of fine buildings? A library? A staff of well-trained tea chers? A body of eager students? A winning football team? Cardinal Newman defines the prime functions of a university.\n\nRead: Newman's THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY Vol. 28\, pp. 31-39\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/ february.html#feb-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270223 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Ode for Washington's Birthday DESCRIPTION:(George Washington born Feb. 22\, 1732.)\n\nBurns asks for Colu mbia's harp\, and then sings of liberty. He bewails the sad state of the l and of Alfred and Wallace which once championed liberty\, and now fights f or tyranny.\n\nRead: BURNS' POEMS Vol. 6\, pp. 492-494\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270224 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pepys' Nose for News DESCRIPTION:(Samuel Pepys born Feb. 23\, 1632.)\n\nGossipy\, witty Pepys ha d a curiosity that made him famous. He knew all the news of court and stre et. Stevenson\, who never put his pen to a dull subject\, writes of Pepys. \n\nRead: Stevenson's SAMUEL PEPYS Vol. 28\, pp. 285-292\n\nhttps://verito picon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270225 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Lights and Shadows of Milton DESCRIPTION:(John Milton marries his third wife\, Elizabeth Marshall\, Feb. 24\, 1662.)\n\nIn a superb poem\, Milton bids Loathed Melancholy begone t o some dark cell. He calls for the joys of youth and vows eternal faith wi th them.\n\nRead: MILTON'S POEMS Vol. 4\, pp. 30-38\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270226 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Punished for Too Sharp a Wit DESCRIPTION:("The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" censored\, Feb. 25\, 1703.) \n\nThe brilliant wit and cutting satire of Defoe made for him friends and enemies—but mostly enemies. So piercing and two-edged was "The Shortest -Way with Dissenters" that he was fined\, imprisoned and pilloried.\n\nRea d: THE SHORTEST WAY WITH DISSENTERS Vol. 27\, pp. 133-147\n\nhttps://verit opicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270227 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A David Who Side-stepped Goliath DESCRIPTION:(Victor Hugo born Feb. 26\, 1802.)\n\nHugo was insulted by the most "powerful critics in France. He put into the preface of a play "his s ling and his stone" by which others might slay "the classical Goliath."\n\ nRead: HUGO'S PREFACE TO CROMWELL Vol. 39\, pp. 337-349\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270228 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Poet Apostle of Good Cheer DESCRIPTION:(Longfellow born Feb. 27\, 1807.)\n\n"Tell me not in mournful n umbers\, life is but an empty dream . . "Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps—" So begin poems that have charmed and cheered thousand s.\n\nRead: LONGFELLOW'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1264-1280\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270301 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Spoke Latin First DESCRIPTION:(Michel de Montaigne born Feb. 28\, 1533.)\n\nProficient in Lat in even before he knew his own tongue\, Montaigne received an unusual educ ation. His whole life was spent in storing up his choice thoughts for our profit and pleasure.\n\nRead: Montaigne's ESSAYS Vol. 32\, pp. 29-40\n\nht tps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:feb-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270301 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Goethe's Tale of a Maiden in Love DESCRIPTION:To either Saint Patrick or the Scottish Parliament of 1228 go t he honors—or dishonors—of originating the traditions attending this da y\; says the latter\, "ilka maiden ladee\, of baith high and lowe estait\, shall hae libertie to speak ye man she likes." The course of true love ru ns smooth in Goethe's narrative poem\, enduring today for its characteriza tion and swift-flowing lines.\n\nRead: HERMANN AND DOROTHEA Vol. 19\, p. 3 37\; also pp. 395-410\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.htm l#feb-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/february.html#feb-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270302 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Invented Sir Roger de Coverly DESCRIPTION:(First issue of the "Spectator\," published March 1\, 1711.)\n\ nWord pictures are often more vivid than photographs. Steele had a gift fo r originating characters that are remembered longer than flesh and blood p eople. Sir Roger de Coverly and Will Honeycomb are now bold figures in lit erature.\n\nRead: THE SPECTATOR CLUB Vol. 27\, pp. 83-87\n\nhttps://verito picon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270303 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Sailors Do on Sunday DESCRIPTION:"A sailor's liberty is but for a day\," as Dana explains. Dress ed in his Sunday best\, the sailor feels like a dashing Beau Brummel\; and sets out to enjoy his freedom. "While it lasts it is perfect. He is under no one's eye and can do whatever he pleases."\n\nRead: Dana's TWO YEARS B EFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 112-119\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/march.html#mar-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270304 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: For Poets and Fishermen DESCRIPTION:(George Herbert died March 3\, 1633.)\n\nIsaak Walton\, famed p atron of fishermen\, appreciated other arts and hobbies. He writes of Geor ge Herbert\, a preacher whose hobby was poetry.\n\nRead: Walton's LIFE OF GEORGE HERBERT Vol. 15\, pp. 373-382\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/march.html#mar-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270304 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270305 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Penn—Pioneer\, Thinker\, and Builder DESCRIPTION:(King Charles grants Penn charter of Pennsylvania\, March 4\, 1 681.)\n\nPenn\, true to Quaker beliefs\, came before the king with his hat on. The king overlooked this and later made him governor of Pennsylvania. A sagacious Penn is revealed in his writings.\n\nRead: Penn's SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE Vol. 1\, pp. 321-330\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/ march.html#mar-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270306 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Laughed at Locks DESCRIPTION:Prison walls were the least of Cellini's troubles. "Lock me wel l up and watch me\, for I shall certainly contrive to escape." In spite of this warning\, the utmost care of the jailers only furnished amusement fo r the dauntless Cellini.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 31\, pp. 21 4-224\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270307 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: West Point's Outcast\, America's First Great Poet DESCRIPTION:(Poe expelled from West Point\, March 6\, 1831.)\n\nEdgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point and disinherited. So poor was he that wh en his young wife lay dying\, he could not afford a fire to warm her. The weirdness and despair of "The Raven" is particularly symbolic of his life. \n\nRead: Poe's THE RAVEN Vol. 42\, pp. 1227-1230\n\nhttps://veritopicon.c om/reading-plan/march.html#mar-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270308 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Bacon Warns Judges DESCRIPTION:(Bacon made Keeper of the Great Seal of England\, March 7\, 161 6.)\n\nBacon pointed out that a judge's duty was to interpret laws and not to make laws. This single essay of Bacon's is a richly condensed summary of the ethics of law.\n\nRead: Bacon's OF JUDICATURE Vol. 3\, pp. 130-134\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270309 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dangerous Experiment with a Wife DESCRIPTION:Anselmo and Lothario were close friends. Anselmo\, anxious to l earn if his wife were perfect\, as he believed her to be\, makes an unusua l proposal to his old friend.\n\nRead: Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp . 307-319\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270309 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270310 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Common Sense and Good Manners DESCRIPTION:(Passage of laws ugainst dueling in England\, March 9\, 1679.)\ n\nSwift regretted the laws against dueling because dueling at least was a good means of ridding the country of bores and fools. His keen eye penetr ated social customs and saw the common sense that governed good manners.\n \nRead: TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS Vol. 27\, pp. 99-103\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270311 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Beaumont—The Adonis of Elizabethan Playwrights DESCRIPTION:In the days when contact with the theatre meant exile from the best society\, Beaumont and Fletcher\, men from good families\, dared to a lly themselves with the stage as playwrights. "Philaster" won them immorta l praise.\n\nRead: PHILASTER Vol. 47\, pp. 667-677\n\nhttps://veritopicon. com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270312 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Gain Gleaned from Suffering DESCRIPTION:(Emerson ordained Unitarian minister\, March 11\, 1829.)\n\nWe are paid for our suffering and we pay for our happiness. Every ache\, ever y sorrow receives its recompense here on earth. Emerson gives the basis fo r this conviction.\n\nRead: Emerson's COMPENSATION Vol. 5\, pp. 85-92\n\nh ttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270313 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Irish Bishop's Wit DESCRIPTION:(Bishop Berkeley born March 12\, 1685.)\n\nBerkeley believed in a great religious future for America. He lived three years in Rhode Islan d\, and made plans for a college in Bermuda.\n\nRead: Berkeley's THREE DIA LOGUES Vol. 37\, pp. 228-238\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march .html#mar-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270314 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Before Nobility Ran Tea Rooms DESCRIPTION:Manzoni has pictured in this thrilling romance of the seventeen th century nobility\, the pompous and sporting life of those good old days when nobles lived sumptuously in spacious castles surrounded by vast esta tes.\n\nRead: Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI Vol. 21\, pp. 318-332\n\nhttps:// veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270315 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Maiden's Forfeit DESCRIPTION:(Malory\, recorder of King Arthur stories\, died March 14\, 147 0.)\n\n"This gentlewoman that ye lead with you is a maid?" demanded the kn ight. "Sir\," said she\, "a maid I am." "Then she must yield us the custom of this castle."\n\nRead: THE HOLY GRAIL Vol. 35\, pp. 194-200\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270316 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Beware the Ides of March! DESCRIPTION:(Ides of March\, March 15.)\n\nTwice warned of the danger that threatened him on the Ides of March\, although "the earthrocked and the st ars fell and headless men walked in the Forum\," Czxsar goes to the doom a waiting him in the Senate Chamber.\n\nRead: Plutarch's Caesar Vol. 12\, pp . 315-321\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270317 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Crabs Climb Trees? DESCRIPTION:Many amazing things happen in the Malay jungles. For example\, Darwin tells about a crab that climbs trees and walks down the trunks for an occasional bath in a pool.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 466-475\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270318 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Old Irish Legend DESCRIPTION:(St. Patrick's Day.)\n\nAn old Irish legend tells how\, while S t. Patrick was preaching about Paradise and Hell\, several of his audience begged to be allowed to investigate the reality of these places. St. Patr ick actually satisfied their curiosity.\n\nRead: THE POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES Vol. 32\, pp. 174-182\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march. html#mar-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270319 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: New Way to Pay Old Debts DESCRIPTION:(Massinger buried March 18\, 1640.)\n\nA cunning uncle cheats h is worthless nephew out of his fortune. The nephew\, laughing stock of his former servants\, sets out to retrieve his old position and riches.\n\nRe ad: A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS Vol. 47\, pp. 859-870\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270320 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Seeing Old Egypt DESCRIPTION:(Last recorded event in Herodotus' history dated March 19\, 478 B. C.)\n\nThe mysterious Egyptian temples\, the floating islands\, the hu ge pyramids and the many wonders of ancient Egypt are pictured for you by Herodotus.\n\nRead: Herodotus' AN ACCOUNT OF EGYPT Vol. 33\, pp. 72-84\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270321 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Apples\, Feathers\, and Coals DESCRIPTION:(Sir Isaac Newton died March 20\, 1727.)\n\nSir Isaac Newton wa s aided in his momentous discoveries by the most insignificant objects—e ven apples\, feathers\, and coal. Voltaire discusses the wondrous discover ies of Newton.\n\nRead: Voltaire's LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH Vol. 34\, pp. 11 3-124\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270322 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: 1\,000 Years of History on the Surface of a Shield DESCRIPTION:Venus\, mother of Aeneas and wife of Vulcan\, obtained from her husband\, by seductive witchery\, a marvelous shield whose surface reflec ted a thousand years of future events. Venus describes the wonders of the magic armor.\n\nRead: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 280-292\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270323 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: From Puppet Show to Majestic Drama DESCRIPTION:(Goethe died March 22\, 1832.) :\n\nThe Faust legend\, which ca n be traced to puppet shows of earlier days\, portrays a philosopher who\, through Satan's aid and in return for the price of his soul\, works magic at will. From this rude framework Goethe has reared a drama of sublime gr andeur.\n\nRead: Goethe's FAUST Vol. 19\, pp. 23-36\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270324 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: First of a Thousand Harem Stories DESCRIPTION:Shahrazad\, favorite of the treacherous Sultan's harem\, select ed a most thrilling story for her bridal night. By leaving it unfinished s he was privileged to live to continue it the next night—and so on for a thousand and one nights.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp . 15-24\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270325 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Queen Pleads DESCRIPTION:(William Morris born March 24\, 1834.)\n\nGuenevere\, King Arth ur's queen\, justly accused but harshly treated\, makes a noble and brave attempt to convince her court that Gawaine lied and that Launcelot was tru e.\n\nRead: Morris' DEFENSE OF GUENEVERE Vol. 42\, pp. 1183-1193\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270326 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How Conscience Makes Cowards of Us All DESCRIPTION:(Shakespeare makes his will\, March 25\, 1616.)\n\nHamlet ponde red over which course contained the least unhappiness—whether to suffer here and not incur new dangers\, or whether to end it all and chance the u nknown terrors of the next world. See how Hamlet reasoned.\n\nRead: Shakes peare's HAMLET Vol. 46\, pp. 144-158\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/march.html#mar-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270327 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: 2\,500 Years Ago fEsop Said .. ." DESCRIPTION:(Caxton prints ZEsop's Fables\, March 26\, 1484.)\n\nMen in all ages have recognized the ingenuity of the practical philosophy and freshn ess of AZsop's allegories. Spend a few delightful moments with the wit and wisdom of AZsop.\n\nRead: Aesop&rsquo\;s FABLES Vol. 17\, pp. 21-30\n\nht tps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270328 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Is a Lie Not a Lie? DESCRIPTION:Is lying or quibbling ever permissible? May one juggle words so a truth is conveyed through a lie and a lie told by a truth? Stevenson un ravels this puzzle. —\n\nRead: Stevenson's TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE Vol. 28\ , pp. 277-284\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270329 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pins and Other Points DESCRIPTION:The making of a simple pin is one of the most complex affairs o f modern industry. Adam Smith regards the process from the worker's point of view\, and shows the many and varied economic principles that are invol ved in pin making.\n\nRead: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS Vol. 10\, pp. 9 -17\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270330 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Hero and Goddess Break Engagement DESCRIPTION:Brynhild\, favorite goddess of Norse mythology\, plighted troth with Sigurd\, fearless warrior. But Sigurd forgot Brynhild and married Gu drun\, whose brother\, Gunner\, then set out to win the beautiful Brynhild . Complications very like a modern triangle arose.\n\nRead: EPIC AND SAGA Vol. 49\, pp. 307-317\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#m ar-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270331 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Plague of Milan DESCRIPTION:"J Promessi Sposi\," a seventeenth century novel\, vividly desc ribes the devastating plague of Milan. Then whole families sickened in a f ew hours and died in less than a day's time of strange and violent complai nts whose symptoms were unknown to physicians. (Capuchin monks given charg e of the plague hospital in Milan\, March 30\, 1630.)\n\nRead: Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI Vol. 21\, pp. 500-512\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-p lan/march.html#mar-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mar-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270401 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Ghastly Whim of John Donne DESCRIPTION:(John Donne died March 31\, 1631.)\n\nMonuments are usually mad e from death masks\, but John Donne took pleasure in posing for his\, wrap ped from head to foot in a shroud. Isaak Walton tells of this in his fasci nating biography of the eccentric poet.\n\nRead: Walton's LIFE OF DR. DONN E Vol. 15\, pp. 364-369\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html #mar-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/march.html#mar-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270402 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Oh! to Be in England Now That April's There" DESCRIPTION:Everyone knows the pangs of homesickness in the spring. Even br ight\, sparkling Italy could not wean Browning's affection from the green hedgerows of misty England.\n\nRead: BROWNING'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1068-1 074\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270403 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Spoon Dances in the Moonlight DESCRIPTION:A huge spoon dressed in human finery\, placed on a grave\, appe ars to become convulsed when the moon's rays fall on it and dances to the tune of chanting natives. Weird sights\, according to Darwin\, abound in t he South Seas.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 462-47 1\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270404 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Romance with a Happy Ending DESCRIPTION:(George Herbert born April 3\, 1593.)\n\n"As a conqueror enters a surprised city\; love made such resolutions as neither party was able t o resist. She changed her name into Herbert the third day after*this first interview."\n\nRead: Walton's LIFE OF GEORGE HERBERT Vol. 15\, pp. 392-40 4\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270405 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Mistakes of a Night DESCRIPTION:(Oliver Goldsmith born April 4\, 1774.)\n\nGenial and rollickin g fun are provided in this highly entertaining story of a man who mistakes a private house for an inn\, and who treats his host's daughter like a se rving maid.\n\nRead: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Vol. 18\, pp. 205-215\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270405 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270406 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: You and Your Dreams DESCRIPTION:(Hobbes born April 5\, 1588.)\n\nDreams and their causes intere sted Hobbes. Without superstition\, the philosopher weighed the evidence o f ghosts\, goblins\, and witches.\n\nRead: Hobbes' LEVIATHAN Vol. 34\, pp. 313-322\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270406 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270407 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Who Is Bad? DESCRIPTION:(Marcus Aurelius born April 6\, 121 A. D.)\n\nBadness has many interpretations\, a different definition has beem the dictate of each new generation. The solution of the eternal ' riddle was earnestly sought by M arcus Aurelius.\n\nRead: MARCUS AURELIUS' MEDITATIONS Vol. 2\, pp. 243-253 \n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270408 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Nature Guided His Pen DESCRIPTION:(Wordsworth born April 7\, 1770.)\n\nWordsworth was so closely in touch with Nature that the simple beauty of flowers\, woods\, and field s is reflected in his poems as if Nature herself took up the pen and wrote .\n\nRead: WORDSWORTH'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 639-651\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270409 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Beware the Vengeful Hounds! DESCRIPTION:Orestes\, holding an avenging sword over his mother\, is told: "Beware thy mother's vengeful hounds." How he pays for disregarding his mo ther's warning is told in this drama where a mother is slain to avenge a f ather's ghost.\n\nRead: Aeschylus' THE LIBATION BEARERS Vol. 8\, pp.111-12 1\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270409 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270410 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Perfect Land in a Wilderness of Waters DESCRIPTION:(Francis Bacon died April 9\, 1629.)\n\nWest of Peru there was reported to be a land where Truth and Science were used to promote the hap piness and freedom of man. Here is Bacon's description of this ideal commo nwealth.\n\nRead: Bacon's NEW ATLANTIS Vol. 3\, pp. 145-155\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270411 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Americans—by Will of the King DESCRIPTION:(King James grants charter to Virginia\, April 10\, 1606.)\n\nB efore English adventurers could attempt settlement in America it was neces sary first to get permission from the King. The charter of King James to t he oldest American colony is an extremely important historical document.\n \nRead: First Charter of Virginia Vol. 43\, pp. 49-58\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270412 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Danger in Being Young and Fair DESCRIPTION:The virgin beauty of Margaret enchanted Faust\, who dazzled her with the brilliance of many gems. Margaret innocently took his gifts\, be lieving that beauty should not "blush unseen"—but unmindful of consequen ces to follow.\n\nRead: Goethe's FAUST Vol. 19\, pp. 115-131\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270413 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Perfect Argument DESCRIPTION:You would doubtless like to know how to hold your own in any ar gument. Read what Leslie Stephen declares the finest specimen in our langu age of the conduct of argument.\n\nRead: Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES Vol. 3 7\, pp. 230-240\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270414 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Michelangelo His Boon Companion DESCRIPTION:Kings\, emperors\, the greatest artists and sculptors of the Re naissance at its most magnificent period\, walk through the pages of his a utobiography—not as cold\, austere\, historical character\, but as the i ntimate friends of Cellini.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 31\, pp. 23-35\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270415 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Raid on Spanish Treasure in America DESCRIPTION:Spanish towns in the New World were rich in treasure and tempti ng booty for English soldiers of fortune\, who were venturesome and mercil ess. "Ho! for the Spanish Main!" was the rallying cry for all freebooters and buccaneers.\n\nRead: Biggs' DRAKE'S GREAT ARMADA Vol. 33\, pp. 229-242 \n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270416 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: O Captain! My Captain! DESCRIPTION:(Lincoln died April 15\, 1865.)\n\nThe rugged\, genuine Lincoln was idealized by Walt Whitman— the founder of the new school of America n poetry. Two of Whitman's finest poems were inspired by Lincoln.\n\nRead: WHITMAN'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1412-1420\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readin g-plan/april.html#apr-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270417 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Inside the Gates of Hell DESCRIPTION:(Dante urges attack on the city of Florence\, April 16\, 1311.) \n\nThe city of Dis\, within the gates of Hell\, was guarded by monsters a nd surrounded by a moat filled with the tormented. Dante\, protected by Vi rgil\, entered the forbidden city\, and viewed sights never before seen by living man.\n\nRead: Dante's DIVINE COMEDY Vol. 20\, pp. 32-39\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270418 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Benjamin Franklin—Book Salesman DESCRIPTION:(Benjamin Franklin died April 17\, 1790.)\n\nIn 1731 there were not many books in America. Franklin saw the need for more books and by ho use-to-house canvassing persuaded Philadelphians to aid him in founding a public library which to-day stands as a lasting memorial to Franklin.\n\nR ead: FRANKLIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 1\, pp. 66-77\n\nhttps://veritopicon.co m/reading-plan/april.html#apr-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270419 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Ready for Adventures and Conquests DESCRIPTION:(Cervantes receives the last sacraments April 18\, 1616.)\n\nRe ading too many romances of knights and valorous deeds caused a poor Spanis h gentleman to polish up his great-grandfather's armor\, rechristen his ol d nag\, and sally forth. "Don Quixote\," besides holding a secure niche in literature as the work that quashed the romantic school of knight-errantr y\, is at the same time one of the most widely-read stories in the world.\ n\nRead: Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp. 17-28\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270420 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Battle of Concord DESCRIPTION:(Fought April 19\, 1775.)\n\nDr. Eliot says of the opening stan za of the "Concord Hymn": "In twenty-eight words here are the whole scene and all the essential circumstances . . . what an accurate\, moving\, immo rtal description is this!"\n\nRead: Emerson's CONCORD HYMN Vol. 42\, pp. 1 245-1246\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270421 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Byron Gave His Life for Freedom DESCRIPTION:(At Missolonghi\, Greece\, 37 guns honor Byron\, April 20\, 182 4.)\n\nEngland's romantic poet died while fighting against the Turks on th e side of the Greeks. His poems\, "The Isles of Greece" and "The Prisoner of Chillon\," proclaim freedom.\n\nRead: BYRON'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 801-8 15\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270422 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Books as Windows to the Past DESCRIPTION:(H. A. Taine born April 21\, 1828.)\n\nThrough the pages of a b ook the reader sees the life of past days. Carnivals\, processions\, battl es\, coronations\, voyages—the whole history of the world and its people is revealed in a stupendous pageant. Taine was a Frenchman who wrote an u nsurpassed history of English literature\; its introduction reveals the un usual combination of an imaginative and an analytical style.\n\nRead: INTR ODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE Vol. 39\, pp. 410-418\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270423 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Happiness as a Duty DESCRIPTION:(Immanuel Kant born April 22\, 1724.)\n\nImmanuel Kant\, the mo st influential of German philosophers\, taught that it was man's duty to b e happy\, for an unhappy man is tempted to sin. Seekers after happiness fi nd aid and inspiration in Kant's writings.\n\nRead: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS Vol. 32\, pp. 310-317\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/a pril.html#apr-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270424 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: If You Have Poison for Me\, I Will Drink It" DESCRIPTION:(Shakespeare died April 23\, 1616.)\n\nShaken and disillusioned by the treachery of his elder daughter\, King Lear suspected even the fai thful Cordelia of evil designs. Her most tender efforts to comfort him fai led to drive away the insistent specter of his madness.\n\nRead: Shakespea re's KING LEAR Vol. 46\, pp. 293-303\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/april.html#apr-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270425 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Nineteen Million Elephants DESCRIPTION:At the rate at which elephants naturally increase\, Darwin esti mated that in 750 years there could be nearly 19\,000\,000 elephants. But did Darwin consider the ravages of civilization and circuses?\n\nRead: Dar win's ORIGIN OF SPECIES Vol. 11\, pp. 74-86\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/rea ding-plan/april.html#apr-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270426 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Mighty Rome Feared These Men DESCRIPTION:Men who danced among sharp swords—who gambled with their live s—who took their women to the battlefields to encourage the brave and sh ame the cowardly—these were the primitive Germans who made Roman emperor s tremble. |\n\nRead: Tacitus' ON GERMANY Vol. 33\, pp. 106-120\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270427 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Do Miracles Still Happen DESCRIPTION:(David Hume born April 26\, 17121.)\n\nJust what constitutes a miracle? Does Science indorse miracles? One wonders why such marvelous thi ngs do not happen often nowadays. Hume tells why.\n\nRead: Hume ON MIRACLE S Vol. 37\, pp. 375-385\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html #apr-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270428 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: He Dared to See Forbidden Beauty DESCRIPTION:(Emerson died April 27\, 1882.)\n\nThe Puritan world feared Bea uty. Emerson\, great American essayist and philosopher\, declared that the world was made for beauty\, and openly worshiped at beauty's shrine.\n\nR ead: Emerson's BEAUTY Vol. 5\, pp. 297-310\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/read ing-plan/april.html#apr-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270429 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Vanity of Vanities\," Saith the Preacher DESCRIPTION:Three hundred years before Christ\, a preacher in Jerusalem com plained that there was no new thing under the sun. Everything considered n ew had really existed in the time of the fathers. Sophisticated and modern is this writer of 2\,300 years ago.\n\nRead: THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES Vol . 44\, pp. 335-341\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr- 28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270430 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: FIFTEEN. MINUTES A DAY 47 DESCRIPTION:How I Got Rich—by Sindbad the Sailor Sindbad\, a poor man\, r ecited woeful verses before the magnificent dwelling of Sindbad of the Sea . The great Sindbad\, hearing him\, ' invited the poor Sindbad to a feast and told the wonderful story of his fabulous fortune.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAN D AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 231-242\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading- plan/april.html#apr-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apr-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270501 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Washington's Dictum on Private Life DESCRIPTION:(Washington inaugurated April 30\, 1789.)\n\nWashington declare d that the strength of the new nation lay in the "pure and immutable princ iples of private morality." A free government\, fortified by the virtues a nd affection of its citizens\, can command the respect of the world.\n\nRe ad: Washington's FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS Vol. 43\, pp. 225-228\n\nhttps:// veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/april.html#apr-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270502 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Would You Ask Judas Iscariot? DESCRIPTION:Once Hazlitt and his friends took to discussing the famous peop le they would like to meet—Guy Fawkes\, Sir Isaac Newton\, Chaucer\, Boc caccio\, Cromwell\, Garrick\, and Judas.\n\nRead: PERSONS ONE WOULD WISH T O HAVE SEEN Vol. 27\, pp. 270-283\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/ may.html#may-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270503 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: First Sparks of Electricity DESCRIPTION:Everything has to have a beginning\, so too with the science of electricity. Here we learn the very rudiments\, the inceptions of science that have revolutionized the world. Faraday explains in a simple way the truths of electricity.\n\nRead: Faraday's MAGNETISM&mdash\;ELECTRICITY Vol . 30\, pp. 61-72\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270504 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Why "Machiavellian"? DESCRIPTION:(Machiavelli born May 3\, 1469.)\n\nTraveling from court to cou rt in the stirring days of the Renaissance\, Machiavelli studied the intri gues of princes. His writings have affected the destiny of mighty dynastie s.\n\nRead: Machiavelli's THE PRINCE Vol. 36\, pp. 7-17\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270505 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Champion of Science DESCRIPTION:(Huxley born May 4\, 1825.)\n\nWhen science was struggling for a place in popular education\, Huxley distinguished himself as its champio n. While the arts were to beautify life and increase pleasure\, Huxley saw science as a means of benefiting man's prosperity.\n\nRead: SCIENCE AND C ULTURE Vol. 28\, pp. 209-319\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.h tml#may-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270505 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270506 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Strange Adventures in Man's Clothes DESCRIPTION:(Calderon\, after a life of adventure\, died May 5\, 1681.)\n\n Disguised as a man\, a Russian noblewoman exploring the mountains of Polan d came upon a secret prison. Fate linked the lives of this woman and the u nknown prisoner.\n\nRead: Calderon's LIFE IS A DREAM Vol. 26\, pp. 7-21\n\ nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270506 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270507 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke DESCRIPTION:"Benvenuto\, the figure cannot succeed in bronze\," so spoke th e patron Duke. Cellini\, stung to fury\, passionately burst out: "You do n ot understand art." Feverishly he began the casting of the statue—but re ad his own account of the tilt with the Duke.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGR APHY Vol. 31\, pp. 373-384\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.htm l#may-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270508 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Bishop Bargains DESCRIPTION:(Robert Browning born May 7\, 1812.)\n\nA haughty aristocrat\, who murdered his wife for enjoying life more than he\, now bargaining for a new bride\; a crafty bishop begging and bullying his heirs for a tomb ri cher than that of his rival\; these are subjects of Browning's pen.\n\nRea d: BROWNING'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1074-1078\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/rea ding-plan/may.html#may-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270509 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Behind the Screen in the School for Scandal DESCRIPTION:("School for Scandal" produced at Drury Lane\, May 8\, 1777.)\n \nLady Teazle hides in haste when her husband is unexpectedly announced\, Situations which set many tongues wagging and fed the fire of gossip in Sc andal-land\, startle the reader.\n\nRead: Sheridan's SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Vo l. 18\, pp. 164-176\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270510 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Relation of Art to Freedom DESCRIPTION:(Friedrich von Schiller died May 9\, 1805.)\n\nWho has ever tho ught the arts had anything to do with freedom? Schiller did. Forced by a G erman noble to enter a military school\, he escaped. Struggling to achieve freedom\, he wrote a series of letters on the relation of art to freedom. \n\nRead: Schiller's ON AESTHETIC EDUCATION Vol. 32\, pp. 209-217\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270511 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Knight Among Cannibals DESCRIPTION:Savages who drink the powdered bones of their dead mixed with w ine\, Amazons who hold riotous festivals\, the worship of golden statues\, all the primitive wonders of Guiana are described by the famous Elizabeth an gallant\, Sir Walter Raleigh.\n\nRead: Raleigh's DISCOVERY OF GUIANA Vo l. 33\, pp. 326-341\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-1 0 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270512 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Latest Gossip in Malfi DESCRIPTION:Latest news abroad in Malfi: The Duchess has run off with her b utler. But this happened before the days of newspapers or radio\, so Webst er made from it an exciting play.\n\nRead: Webster's THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Vol. 47\, pp. 755-771\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may -11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270512 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270513 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: His Wife's Golden Hair Enshrined His Poems DESCRIPTION:(Rossetti born May 12\, 1828.)\n\nThe manuscripts of many of th e best poems of Rossetti were buried with his wife. Friends prevailed upon him to allow them to be exhumed—and these poems\, once buried with the dead\, are now a treasure of the living.\n\nRead: ROSSETTI'S POEMS Vol. 42 \, pp. 1149-1153\, 1178-1181\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.h tml#may-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270514 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Does Your Dog Think of You? DESCRIPTION:Two dogs fell a-gossiping about their masters and about a dog's life among the humble Scotch folk. Each "rejoic'd they werena men but dog s\; an' each took aff his several way."\n\nRead: Burns' THE TWA DOGS Vol. 6\, pp. 151-157\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270514 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270515 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Jenner's Amazing Smallpox Cure DESCRIPTION:(Edward Jenner makes his first vaccination May 14\, 1796.)\n\nE dward Jenner found that disease in the heel of a horse\, transmitted throu gh a cow to the dairy attendants\, was an agent in making human beings imm une from smallpox. His amazing experiments inaugurated a new epoch.\n\nRea d: VACCINATION AGAINST SMALLPOX Vol. 38\, pp. 145-154\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270515 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270516 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Glimpses Into the Beyond DESCRIPTION:(Dante born May 15\, 1265.)\n\nThe best part of the Divine Come dy for a few minutes' reading is the "Inferno." There the reader finds the most vivid descriptions\, the most startling and unforgettable pictures.\ n\nRead: Dante's DIVINE COMEDY Vol. 20\, pp. 102-114\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270516 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270517 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Favorite Superstitions of Celtic Imagination DESCRIPTION:Chessboards on which\, of their own accord\, black pieces playe d against white\; chariots that swiftly turned hither and yon without a dr iver\; pots in which a coward's meat would not cook— all these are woven into bewitching stories.\n\nRead: THE POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES Vol. 32\ , pp. 145-155\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270518 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Honest Life's Reward DESCRIPTION:Condemned for impiety\, Socrates felt so justified in the virtu e of his past action that instead of receiving a death sentence\, he told the judges he should be maintained at public expense as a public benefacto r.\n\nRead: Plato's APOLOGY OF SOCRATES Vol. 2\, pp. 24-30\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270519 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: g The Night Life of Flowers DESCRIPTION:Flowers often tire of their stationary life and sometimes at ni ght frolic away to a ball in a beautiful castle. Thus a fanciful storytell er accounts for their drooping condition in the morning.\n\nRead: ANDERSEN 'S TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 334-341\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may .html#may-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270520 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Golden Advice on Manners DESCRIPTION:When a man is invited to a banquet he must be satisfied with th e dishes put before him. Epictetus reasoned that man should be content wit h what life offers\, and in serenity find happiness.\n\nRead: Epictetus' G OLDEN SAYINGS Vol. 2\, pp. 128-138\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /may.html#may-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270520 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270521 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Shakespeare's Finest Work DESCRIPTION:(Sonnets entered in the London Stationers' Register\, May 20. 1 609.)\n\nThe most concentrated beauty of Shakespeare's unbounded creative genius is found in his sonnets. Written as personal messages to friends an d not intended for publication\, they reveal the inner Shakespeare more tr uly than do any of his great plays.\n\nRead: Shakespeare's SONNETS Vol. 40 \, pp. 270-276\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270522 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Honest Man Defined DESCRIPTION:(Alexander Pope born May 21\, 1688.)\n\nThe sharp tongue of Ale xander Pope made him celebrated\, yet widely feared. In a representative p roduct of his versatile pen\, he gracefully combines his flashing wit with sage advice.\n\nRead: Pope's ESSAY ON MAN Vol. 40\, pp. 430-440\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270523 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: True Love in Difficulty DESCRIPTION:(Manzoni died May 22\, 1873.)\n\nBecause of a fancy for a peasa nt girl\, the tyrannical lord cf an Italian village sent desperadoes to th reaten the priest if he married the girl to her village lover.\n\nRead: Ma nzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI Vol. 21\, pp. 7-24\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/rea ding-plan/may.html#may-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270524 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Plea for an Unfortunate DESCRIPTION:(Thomas Hood born May 23\, 1799.)\n\nFrom the river her body wa s tenderly lifted—the girl who could find no place in the vast city. Tho mas Hood pleads for her— eloquently and justly. Read this gem of pathos. \n\nRead: HOOD'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 907-911\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/may.html#may-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270524 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270525 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: They Had No Money—Yet Bought and Sold DESCRIPTION:Debts were not always paid in money." Not so long ago the butch er paid for his keg of beer with a slab of beef\, and oxen were exchanged for land and wives. Adam Smith tells the interesting story of the origin a nd use of money.\n\nRead: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS Vol. 10\, pp. 22- 33\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270526 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Do What You Fear DESCRIPTION:(Emerson born May 25\, 1803.)\n\nEmerson startled the world by fearlessly declaring his beliefs. Such apparent paradoxes as we find in hi s inspirational essay\, "Heroism\," makes him the most stimulating yet pro found thinker America has produced.\n\nRead: Emerson's HEROISM Vol. 5\, pp . 121-131\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270526 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270527 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Daughter Declares Her Love DESCRIPTION:(Shakespeare's first daughter\, Susanna\, baptized May 26\, 158 3.)\n\nGoneril and Regan falsely swore they loved their father\, King Lear \, more than life itself. Cordelia could find no words to express her sinc ere devotion. Then King Lear made the decision that started a series of ex citing events.\n\nRead: Shakespeare's KING LEAR Vol. 46\, pp. 215-225\n\nh ttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270528 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Lessing's Courageous Stand for Toleration DESCRIPTION:To advance freedom of thought\, Lessing published an essay of o ne hundred paragraphs outlining the history of religion. The wrath of orth odox churchmen was hurled at his head\, and Lessing was left alone to defe nd his daring theories.\n\nRead: THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE Vol. 32\, pp. 185-195\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270529 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Master of Melodious Lyrics DESCRIPTION:(Thomas Moore born May 28\, 1779.) :\n\nAny one of these poems\ , "The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls\," "The Last Rose of Summer\," "The Light of Other Days\," would alone have made Moore immortal.\n\nRead: MOORE'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 816-822\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/may.html#may-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270530 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Adventures in Bagdad DESCRIPTION:A Bagdad merchant dreamed of the money he would make from the s ale of a tray of glassware\, and of marrying the king's daughter. But\, da ydreaming\, he kicked over the tray.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 177-184\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may -29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270530 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270531 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When the Throb of the War Drum Is Stifl'd DESCRIPTION:(Memorial Day.)\n\nAt the close of the war\, a torn and bleedin g nation set about to rebuild its shattered frame. The result was a strong er nation rising from an almost disrupted union.\n\nRead: Longfellow's THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP Vol. 42\, pp. 1280-1290\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/r eading-plan/may.html#may-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:may-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270601 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: America's Most Surprising Poet DESCRIPTION:(Walt Whitman born May 31\, 1819.)\n\nWalt Whitman is the most original and startling of modern poets. An irony of his life is that while he wrote for the contemporary masses\, only a limited number of followers appreciated his genius\, now universally recognized.\n\nRead: Whitman's P REFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS Vol. 39\, pp. 388-398\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com /reading-plan/may.html#may-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/may.html#may-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270602 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Thrilling Play by Tutor of Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:(Marlowe died June 1\, 1593.)\n\nFor the best blank verse in En glish\, read "Dr. Faustus\," the masterpiece of Marlowe\, who gave Shakesp eare lessons in playwriting. This genius knew the secret of gripping drama .\n\nRead: Marlowe's DR. FAUSTUS Vol. 19\, pp. 241-250\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270602 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270603 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Back to Nature" in the Seventeenth Century DESCRIPTION:(Jean Jacques Rousseau born June 2\, 1712.)\n\nA "Back to Natur e" movement in the seventeenth century was headed by Rousseau\, who believ ed that civilization was degrading. To save money for his work\, he entrus ted each of his children to the tender mercies of a foundling house.\n\nRe ad: Rousseau's A SAVOYARD VICAR Vol. 34\, pp. 239-249\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270603 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270604 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pulse Aids Epochal Discoveries DESCRIPTION:(Dr. William Harvey died June 3\, 1657.)\n\nGalileo\, by holdin g his pulse while watching a swinging cathedral lamp\, evolved a theory th at made clocks possible. Harvey\, by feeling his pulse\, educed that arter ies carry blood. Read from Morion or THE HEART AND BLoop\n\nRead: MOTION O F THE HEART AND BLOOD Vol. 38\, pp. 75-86\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readi ng-plan/june.html#jun-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270605 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Neath the Iron Hand of Spain DESCRIPTION:(Egmont sentenced to death June 4\, 1658.)\n\nSpain sent the Du ke of Alva to subdue the Netherlands. In quelling disorder he killed the p eople's hero\, Count Egmont. From this story Goethe made a famous play.\n\ nRead: Goethe's EGMONT Vol. 19\, pp. 253-259\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/june.html#jun-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270606 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Rent of Land from Human Food DESCRIPTION:(Adam Smith born June 5\, 1723.)\n\nEven to-day rent is paid in terms of human food. It sounds primitive\, but it happens right at your d oor—here in the United States\, in compliance with a law as old as man.\ n\nRead: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS Vol. 10\, pp. 149-157\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270607 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Shrill Cry in the Night! DESCRIPTION:(R. H. Dana on watch\, night of June 6\, 18 36.)\n\nA crew face d the hazardous prospect of rounding the bleak Cape Horn in midwinter. Ima gine the terror when a sudden scream pierced the misery-laden air. What wa s it? A man overboard or a lost soul?\n\nRead: Dana's TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 285-295\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.h tml#jun-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270607 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270608 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: There's Rosemary—that's for Remembrance!" DESCRIPTION:(Edwin Booth\, famed Shakespearian actor\, died June 7\, 1893.) \n\nDo you know the rest of Ophelia's famous line? "Hamlet" is the most po pular play in the entire world. It has been quoted so often that reading i t is like meeting an old friend.\n\nRead: HAMLET Vol. 46\, pp. 176-183\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270609 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Eloquence Wins Over Prejudice DESCRIPTION:(John Woolman arrives in London for Friends' meeting\, June 8\, 1772.)\n\nThe plain\, homely appearance of Woolman impressed unfavorably the orthodox Quakers in London whom he was sent to meet. They told him his coming was not necessary. But Woolman spoke with such simplicity and sinc erity that even those most opposed became his friends.\n\nRead: WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL Vol. 1\, pp. 302-312\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june. html#jun-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270610 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Enchanting Songs of David DESCRIPTION:The songs of David pleased King Saul\, but when David became to o popular with the people\, the king feared for his throne and banished hi m.\n\nRead: THE PSALMS Vol. 44\, pp. 168-179\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/june.html#jun-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270610 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270611 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Horrible Prophecy Fulfilled DESCRIPTION:King CEdipus of Thebes as a babe was abandoned on Mount Cithzro n to die. Years after he was thought dead he returns to Thebes and unknowi ngly slays his father\, marries his mother— and thus fulfills the word o f the oracle.\n\nRead: Sophocles' OEDIPUS\, KING OF THEBES Vol. 8\, pp. 20 9-223\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270612 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: He Sang of His Beautiful Elizabeth DESCRIPTION:(Edmund Spenser married Elizabeth Boyle\, June 11\, 1594.)\n\nT o commemorate his marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth\, Spenser wrote one of the most enchanting nuptial hymns.\n\nRead: Spenser's THE EPITHALAMIUM Vol. 40\, pp. 234-245\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#ju n-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270613 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Vishnu Holds Up a Battle DESCRIPTION:Two armies of ancient India were about to engage in a momentous battle. Arjuna\, heroic leader of the Pandu hosts\, foreseeing great slau ghter\, hesitates. He implores the divine Vishnu to intervene. The convers ation of the warrior and the god is a gem of Hindu literature.\n\nRead: TH E BHAGAVAD-GITA Vol. 45\, pp. 785-798\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-p lan/june.html#jun-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270613 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270614 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Athens Flouts Aristides DESCRIPTION:Athenians gave Aristides the title of "The Just." Later they wa nted to banish him. One voter wanted Aristides banished merely because he was weary of hearing him called "The Just."\n\nRead: Plutarch's ARISTIDES Vol. 12\, pp. 85-94\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun- 13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270614 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270615 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Philosopher Prefers Prison Cell DESCRIPTION:Socrates unceasingly strove for beauty\, truth\, and perfection . Sentenced to death on a false charge\, he refused to escape from the dea th cell\, even when opportunity was offered.\n\nRead: Plato's CRITO Vol. 2 \, pp. 31-43\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270616 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Strikers Storm the Tower of London DESCRIPTION:(Wat Tyler's Rebellion suppressed June 15\, 1381.)\n\nLed by Wa t Tyler in 1381\, great troops of villagers and rustics marched on London —laid siege to the Tower—sacked the apartments of the King and murdere d his ministers. Froissart gives first-hand information of this rebellion. \n\nRead: Froissart's WAT TYLER'S REBELLION Vol. 35\, pp. 60-72\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270616 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270617 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Spirits at the Top of the World DESCRIPTION:(Byron publishes "Manfred\," June 16\, 1817.)\n\nThe inaccessib le mountain tops were ever venerated as the haunts of all mysteries. Manfr ed\, hero of Byron's play\, seeks upon the high Alps the aid of spirits\, specters\, and goblins. What unearthly adventures await him!\n\nRead: Byro n's MANFRED Vol. 18\, pp. 415-428\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/ june.html#jun-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270618 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Risked His Scalp in Prayer DESCRIPTION:John Eliot put his life at the mercy of the redmen to get them to listen to his preachings. He wrote vividly about his settlements of Chr istian Indians. Now villages and Indians have disappeared. Only his story remains. VJohn Eliot holds Indian prayer meeting June 17\, 1670.)\n\nRead: Eliot's BRIEF NARRATIVE Vol. 43\, pp. 138-146\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/ reading-plan/june.html#jun-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270618 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270619 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Cinderella Lives To-day DESCRIPTION:Cinderella inspires all alike—the artist's brush\, the author 's pen\, the child's fancy. To-day she is a living\, vital character to be seen on stage and screen. No one ever forgets her lightning change.\n\nRe ad: GRIMM'S TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 98-104\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading- plan/june.html#jun-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270620 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Freaks of the Dog Fad in England DESCRIPTION:A writer of Elizabethan times said that no other country had as many dogs as England. Once Henry VII ordered all mastiffs to be hung beca use they "durst presume to fight against the lion\," England's regal beast .\n\nRead: Holinshed's OUR ENGLISH DOGS Vol. 35\, pp. 350-356\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270620 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270621 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: No Salt for These Birds DESCRIPTION:Galapagos Islands are the home of fearless birds\, to which hor ses\, cows\, and men are only roosting places. Darwin saw the South Pacifi c when few travelers knew that wonderland.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 403-413\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june .html#jun-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270622 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Would You Converse with Royalty? DESCRIPTION:Why gossip with lesser persons when you might be talking to que ens and kings? Just how we may get to talk to queens and kings\, Ruskin de lightfully points out and escorts us to the very doors of the audience cha mber.\n\nRead: Ruskin's SESAME Vol. 28\, pp. 99-110\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270622 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270623 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pliny Tells Ghost Stories DESCRIPTION:Pliny\, who lived in the first century after Christ\, tells of a ghost who dragged his jangling chains through a house in Athens and so t errified the inmates that they fled panic-stricken. But the ghost met his equal.\n\nRead: Pliny's LETTERS Vol. 9\, pp. 311-314\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270624 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Greek Scholar at Three DESCRIPTION:(James Mull\, father of John Stuart Mill\, died June 23\, 1836. )\n\nJohn Stuart Mill—one of the greatest intellects in England—tells how his father educated him. At the early age of three years he began the study of Greek\, and at twelve started writing a book of his own.\n\nRead: Mill's AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 25\, pp. 9-20\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readin g-plan/june.html#jun-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270625 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Had No Right Hand DESCRIPTION:A handsome young man was seen to eat only with his left hand\, which was contrary to the customs of Arabia. The youth\, when urged\, told why he used only his left hand\, and revealed a story of love and adventu re and the lover's need for gold—all happening in ancient Cairo.\n\nRead : THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 120-133\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270625 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270626 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Advice to Virgins from a Wise Man DESCRIPTION:"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may\, Old Time is still a-flying\; And this same flower that smiles today\, to-morrow will be dying?" Herric k was only a humble country minister with a wealth of wisdom and a keen ap preciation of life\, which he expressed in lyrics of wonderful beauty and melody.\n\nRead: HERRICK'S POEMS Vol. 40\, pp. 334-340\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270626 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270627 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: In the Lair of the Green-Eyed Monster DESCRIPTION:At the bottom of the ocean was the home of the monster who had desolated the king's halls. Beowulf\, bravest of warriors\, descended bene ath the waves to fight the beast. The king's men\, waiting above\, saw the waves become colored with blood. Hero or monster—who had won?\n\nRead: BEOWULF Vol. 49\, pp. 45-50\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.h tml#jun-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270627 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270628 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Do You Take Poison Daily? DESCRIPTION:(Francis Bacon enrolled at Cambridge University\, June 27\, 157 6.)\n\nThere is a human trait most poisonous to a man's blood. Man seeks t o avoid it because he knows that it lies like a curse upon him. Just what is the poisonous human failing? Who are most subject to it? Bacon tells yo u in one of his best essays.\n\nRead: BACON'S ESSAYS Vol. 3\, pp. 22-26\n\ nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270628 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270629 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pages from the Pampas Book of Etiquette DESCRIPTION:A very definite etiquette is followed by a stranger on the vast plains of South America. "Ave Maria" is the common salutation. If the str anger is on horseback\, he does not alight until invited to do so by his h ost. Once in the house\, the stranger must converse a while before asking shelter for the night.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp . 51-60\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270629 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270630 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Is That a Dagger I See Before Me?" DESCRIPTION:(Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned June 29\, 1613.)\n\nMacbeth \, spurred on by the ambitious and crafty Lady Macbeth\, committed murder to secure the crown of Scotland. But he paid dearly for his gain. Ghostly guests appeared at his banquet and threatened him with dire threats.\n\nRe ad: Shakespeare's MACBETH Vol. 46\, pp. 357-365\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com /reading-plan/june.html#jun-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jun-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270630 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270701 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Rather King Than Majority DESCRIPTION:"Democracy" has not always been the choice of oppressed people. The tyranny of the majority is a recognized evil as harmful as the misrul e of a king. And rather than exchange a lesser evil for a greater\, a rule by king has often been preferred to a republic.\n\nRead: Mill's ON LIBERT Y Vol. 25\, pp. 195-203\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html# jun-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/june.html#jun-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270702 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Darwin Not First Evolutionist DESCRIPTION:(Darwin publishes outline of "Origin of Species\," July 1\, 185 8.)\n\nWhile Darwin was working on his theory of evolution\, another scien tist independently arrived at the same conclusions. Darwin\, then\, was no t the first to study evolution.\n\nRead: Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES Vol. 1 1\, pp. 5-17\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270702 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270703 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Julius" Becomes "July" DESCRIPTION:So that the date for certain festivals would not fall one year in midwinter and in the heat of summer another year\, Czsar reformed the c alendar. July was named for him.\n\nRead: Plutarch's CESAR Vol. 12\, pp. 3 10-315\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270704 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Gettysburg by an Eyewitness DESCRIPTION:(Battle of Gettysburg\, July 1-3\, 1863.)\n\nAn officer in that momentous battle narrates every major action of both armies. Thus we see the swarming lines of Confederates advance—the hand-to-hand struggle.\n\ nRead: Haskell's BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG Vol. 43\, pp. 326-335\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270704 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270705 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Some Chose to Remain British Subjects DESCRIPTION:(Independence Day.)\n\nSome Americans preferred to be loyal to England and did not want independent government. Their hesitation is bette r understood when the finality of the Declaration is realized.\n\nRead: DE CLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Vol. 43\, pp. 150-155\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com /reading-plan/july.html#jul-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270705 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270706 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Tailor Entertains a King DESCRIPTION:Here is another of those fanciful Oriental stories that proclai ms the democracy of Eastern despotism. A tailor might talk with a king and receive either a death sentence or the office of Grand Vizier as a reward .\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 149-162\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270706 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270707 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Origin of "Utopia" DESCRIPTION:(Sir Thomas More executed\, July 6\, 1535.)\n\nWhen Europe was suffering from evil rulers\, heavy taxes\, and despair\, Sir Thomas More d reamed of a happy land where an intelligently managed state perfected happ iness.\n\nRead: More's UTOPIA Vol. 36\, pp. 135-142\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270707 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270708 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Scandal That Lurked Behind Lace and Powder DESCRIPTION:(Sheridan buried in Westminster Abbey\, July 7\, 1816.)\n\nThe painted lips of the eighteenth century ladies and gallants vied with one a nother in whispering scathing gossip\, in gleefully furthering the destruc tion of a good name. Sheridan depicts this gay world with a brilliant spic y pen.\n\nRead: Sheridan's SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Vol. 18\, pp. 115-128\n\nhtt ps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270708 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270709 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Italy's Fair Assassin DESCRIPTION:(Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned\, July 8\, 1822.)\n\nWhen the mon strous Cenci forced his daughter Beatrice into a horrible situation\, she revolted and boldly struck for freedom. Shelley tells her pitiful story in one of his best works.\n\nRead: Shelley's CENCI Vol. 18\, pp. 288-300\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270709 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270710 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: 2) A Little Lying Now and Then DESCRIPTION:(Bacon becomes Privy Councilor\, July 9\, 1616.)\n\n"What is Tr uth?" asked Pilate. For an answer Bacon discourses not on human nature as it should be\, but as it is. These shrewd observations on making a life an d a living admit occasional departures from truth.\n\nRead: BACON'S ESSAYS Vol. 3\, pp. 7-19\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270710 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270711 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: America's First Immigrants DESCRIPTION:The shadow of a phantom cast upon the cradle of Snorri\, the fi rst white child born in America\, was a warning of an Indian attack on the settlement of courageous Norsemen who had risked the terrors of unknown s eas to visit "Wineland."\n\nRead: THE VOYAGES TO VINLAND Vol. 43. pp. 14-2 0\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270711 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270712 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Star Gazing—A Cure for Tired Minds DESCRIPTION:(Newcomb died July 11\, 1909.)\n\nThe greatest spectacle offere d man is a view of the magnificent vault of heaven. Under the stupendous a rch of the Milky Way the cares of the world roll off.\n\nRead: Newcomb's T HE EXTENT OF THE UNIVERSE Vol. 30\, pp. 311-321\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com /reading-plan/july.html#jul-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270713 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: But He Walked! DESCRIPTION:(Henry David Thoreau born July 12\, 1817.)\n\nThoreau's individ uality was unique and original. He had no profession\; he never married\; he never went to church\; he never voted or paid taxes\; he never smoked\; he never drank wine. His amusement was walking\, to observe and meditate. \n\nRead: Thoreau's WALKING Vol. 28\, pp. 395-405\n\nhttps://veritopicon.c om/reading-plan/july.html#jul-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270713 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270714 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Athenians Also Complained of Taxes DESCRIPTION:Pericles used public money to beautify Athens. The citizens pro tested against the expense\, as citizens in all ages do. By a clever strok e Pericles won their support to his ambitious plans.\n\nRead: Plutarch's P ERICLES Vol. 12\, pp. 47-57\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.h tml#jul-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270714 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270715 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The French People Triumph DESCRIPTION:(The Bastille surrendered\, July 14\, 1789.)\n\nWhat the Fourth of July is to Americans\, the Fourteenth of July is to Frenchmen. It comm emorates an oppressive tyranny overthrown by a freedom-loving people.\n\nR ead: Burke's THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE Vol. 24\, pp. 268-273\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270716 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Elizabeth Dined DESCRIPTION:(Queen Elizabeth entertained at Kenilworth\, July 15\, 1575.)\n \nMeals in the houses of the gentry and noblemen in Elizabethan England we re taken most seriously. No one spoke. Holinshed records the strange table etiquette of our ancestors.\n\nRead: HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES Vol. 35\, pp. 271-288\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270716 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270717 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Mohammedan Jesus DESCRIPTION:(Beginning of Moslem era of time\, July 16\, 622 A. D.)\n\nThe sacred book of the Moslems\, the Koran\, gives an account of the birth of Christ. The Koran gives Jesus a high position among the prophets but holds the first place for Mohammed.\n\nRead: THE KORAN Vol. 45\, pp. 908-913\n\ nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270717 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270718 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Throne for Son or Stepson? DESCRIPTION:(Racine elected to French Academy\, July 17\, 1673.)\n\nPhedre first persecuted Hippolytus\, her handsome stepson\, then loved him. Sudde nly he and her own son became rivals for the throne. Should she push her s on's claims or let Hippolytus take the crown?\n\nRead: Racine's PHAEDRE Vo l. 26\, pp. 133-148\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul- 17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270718 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270719 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: They Loved in Vain DESCRIPTION:"Browning's play has thrown me into a perfect passion of sorrow \," wrote Charles Dickens of "The Blot in the 'Scutcheon." Like Shakespear e's Juliet\, Browning's Mildred plays the rdéle of a youthful lover in a tragic drama.\n\nRead: Browning's BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON Vol. 18\, pp. 359 -368\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270719 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270720 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: She Wanted Heroes All to Herself DESCRIPTION:(Sir Walter Raleigh imprisoned July 19\, 1603.)\n\nThe famous g allant who spread his gorgeous cloak so the dainty slipper of his queen wo uld be unspotted\, soon lost the high favor this action won for him. In sp ite of his glorious voyages\, Raleigh condemned himself when he fell in lo ve with another woman.\n\nRead: Raleigh's DISCOVERY OF GUIANA Vol. 33\, pp . 311-320\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270720 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270721 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Cobbler in Jail DESCRIPTION:John Bunyan\, imprisoned for preaching without a license\, gave to the world "Pilgrim's Progress\," the greatest allegory in any language \, second only to the Bible.\n\nRead: Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Vol. 15\ , pp. 59-69\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270722 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Scotland's Own Poet DESCRIPTION:(Robert Burns died July 21\, 1796.)\n\nThe songs of Burns are t he links\, the watchwords\, the symbols of the Scots. He is the last of th e ballad singers. In his works are preserved the best songs of his people. \n\nRead: BURNS' POEMS Vol. 6\, pp. 70-79\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readi ng-plan/july.html#jul-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270722 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270723 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Trapped in a Cave with a Frenzied Giant DESCRIPTION:Odysseus was wrecked with his men on an island inhabited by one -eyed giants. Trapped in the cave of a giant who gobbled up some of the cr ew for supper\, the cunning Odysseus blinded the giant and rescued the sur vivors of his crew.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEY Vol. 22\, pp. 120-129\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270723 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270724 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Friendship Above Love? DESCRIPTION:(Francis Bacon knighted\, July 23\, 1603.)\n\nThere are styles in friendship as well as in clothes. The mode of friendship of Bacon's tim e went out with plumed hats and long hose. But Bacon knew the true test of a friend.\n\nRead: BACON'S ESSAYS Vol. 3\, pp. 65-72\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270724 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270725 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Indian Sorcery Blamed for an Earthquake DESCRIPTION:Darwin visited a South American city ruined by an earthquake. T here he heard the superstitious account of the The ignorant people accused Indian women of bewitching the volcano. But Darwin has another explanatio n.\n\nRead: Darwin's THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 306-316\n\nhtt ps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270725 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270726 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Goddess and Her Mortal Lover DESCRIPTION:Brynhild\, Woden's daughter\, carried the dead heroes to Valhal la where they could feast and fight without dying\; untl a sin divested he r of divinity\, and she fell in love with Sigurd.\n\nRead: LAY OF BRYNHILD Vol. 49\, pp. 391-395\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#j ul-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270726 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270727 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Peace Amid Strife DESCRIPTION:(Taomas 2 Keneges died July 26\, 2.472.)\n\nWhile Europe was sh aken with wars\, Thomas i Kempis lived in happy seclusion in his convent. His writings convind reflect the serenity and happiness of a man who has f ound peace— a peace that surpasses all understanding.\n\nRead: Thomas a Kempis Vol. 7\, pp. 205-211\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.h tml#jul-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270727 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270728 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Once Surgeons Operated in Frock Coats DESCRIPTION:(Lister publishes paper om entisepiic rreatment\, July a7\, 186 7.)\n\nThe use of antiseptics in surgery is new. Hardly more than a half c entury ago surgeons operated in frock coats. Lord Lister\, surgeon to Quee n Victoria\, was among the first to advocate scrupulous cleanliness in dre ssing wounds\,\n\nRead: ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLES Vol. 38\, pp. 257-267 \n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270729 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Idyl of Agriculture DESCRIPTION:(Adbrakam Cowley died July 28\, 1667.)\n\nCowley portrays the i deal life—that of a farmer\, and blazons it forth in heraldry. "A plow i n a field arable"—to him\, the most honorable of all emblems.\n\nRead: C owley's OF AGRICULTURE Vol. 27\, pp. 61-69\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/read ing-plan/july.html#jul-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270729 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270730 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Stonehenge—England's Unsolved Mystery DESCRIPTION:Stonehenge\, that group of huge\, rudely architectural stones o n a vast plain in England\, was erected no man knows when\, nor why\, nor how. Emerson\, America's greatest thinker\, visited this monument and was amazed at the "uncanny stones."\n\nRead: Emerson's STONEHENGE Vol. 5\, pp. 453-462\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270730 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270731 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The First English Colony in North America DESCRIPTION:(Gilbert lands at Newfoundland near St. John's\, July 30\, 1583 .)\n\nWhen the whole coast of America north of Florida was free to the fir st comer\, Sir Humphrey Gilbert naively chose to settle on the rugged shor es of Newfoundland. Read the glowing account of his great adventure "to pl ant Christian inhabitants in places convenient."\n\nRead: Gilbert's VOYAGE TO NEWFOUNDLAND Vol. 33\, pp. 263-273\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading- plan/july.html#jul-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:jul-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270801 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Charm School for Women DESCRIPTION:(Defoe pilloried for defiance of public opinion\, July 31\, 170 3.)\n\nLack of education\, writes Defoe\, makes a woman "turbulent\, clamo rous\, noisy—" Defoe defied his generation and preached equal education for women. To-day we have co-education\, but have we the benefits Defoe pr edicted?\n\nRead: Defoe's EDUCATION OF WOMEN Vol. 27\, pp. 148-150\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/july.html#jul-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270802 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: His Influence Still Lives DESCRIPTION:(Calvin issues "Dedication\," Aug. 1\, 1536.)\n\nSteadfast alle giance to duty\, simple living and adherence to plain\, honest\, homely do ctrines are Calvin's principles. Are not these same old-fashioned truths f ollowed to-day?\n\nRead: Calvin's DEDICATION Vol. 39\, pp. 27-33\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270802 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270803 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Poems from a Heart of Love DESCRIPTION:"Here is the pleasant place—and nothing wanting is\, save She \, alas!" How often we too are faced with like adversity. So sings Drummon d—a master songster and composer.\n\nRead: DRUMMOND'S POEMS Vol. 40\, pp . 326-330\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270803 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270804 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When the Greeks Sacked Troy DESCRIPTION:They battered down the palace gates and ravaged with fire and s word the chambers of King Priam's hundred wives. Through halls resounding with shrieks of terror\, Priam and his household fled to sanctuary. |\n\nR ead: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 110-117\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/read ing-plan/august.html#aug-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270805 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: World's Greatest Bedtime Stories DESCRIPTION:(H. C. Andersen died Aug. 4\, 1875.)\n\nHans Christian Andersen had an extraordinary capacity for amusing children. Were he living to-day he might be in great demand as a radio bedtime story man.\n\nRead: ANDERS EN'S TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 221-230\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/a ugust.html#aug-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270805 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270806 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Joys of the Simple Life DESCRIPTION:(Robert Burns married Jean Armour\, Aug. 5\, 1788.)\n\n"Cotter' s Saturday Night" for generations to come will remain the choicest picture of Scotch home life. Into this poem Burns instills the sense of all-perva ding peace and happiness that comes at the end of a well-spent day.\n\nRea d: Burns' COTTERS' SATURDAY NIGHT Vol. 6\, pp. 134-140\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270806 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270807 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Prophet of Aerial Warfare DESCRIPTION:(Alfred Lord Tennyson born Aug. 6\, 1809.)\n\n"For I dipt into the future—saw the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue." We are amazed at the accuracy of Tennyson's prediction. But he also forete lls "the federation of the world"—yet to be fulfilled.\n\nRead: Tennyson 's LOCKSLEY HALL Vol. 42\, pp. 979-986\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading- plan/august.html#aug-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270808 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Last Golden Words of Socrates DESCRIPTION:The death sentence of Socrates could not be executed until the return of the sacred ship from Delos. One day his friends learned that the ship had returned. They hastened to the prison to listen to the last word s of Athens' sage.\n\nRead: Plato's PHAEDO Vol. 2\, pp. 45-54\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270809 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Men Transformed by Circe's Wand DESCRIPTION:Unfavorable winds sent by angry gods blew the ships of Odysseus far off their course. The sailors were cast upon a remote island\, govern ed by an enchantress where\, for their coarse manners\, they were put unde r a magic spell.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEY Vol. 22\, pp. 133-144\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270810 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: se) English Bridal Party Jailed DESCRIPTION:(Isaak Walton born Aug. 9\, 1593.)\n\nMinister and witness\, br ide and groom were arrested by an enraged father when John Donne married h is employer's niece. Donne was soon released\, but he found himself withou t money\, position or bride.\n\nRead: Walton's LIFE OF DR. DONNE Vol. 15\, pp. 326-334\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270810 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270811 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Give Them Cake\," said the Queen DESCRIPTION:(French royal family imprisoned\, Aug. 10\, 1792.)\n\nWhen the people of Paris howled because they had no bread to eat\, Queen Marie Anto inette exclaimed: "Well\, then\, let them eat cake!" Such an attitude hast ened the revolution.\n\nRead: Burke's THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE Vol. 24\, p p. 143-157\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270811 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270812 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Clever Repartee of Epictetus DESCRIPTION:Epictetus advises that if a person speaks ill of you\, make no defense\, but answer: "He surely knew not of my other faults\, else he wou ld not have mentioned these only."\n\nRead: Epictetus' GOLDEN SAYINGS Vol. 2\, pp. 176-182\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-1 1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270812 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270813 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Zekle's Courtin' DESCRIPTION:Huldy\, the rustic belle\, sat alone peeling apples. She was ba shful in her consciousness that Zekle would come soon. When he did\, she m erely blushed and timidly said: "Ma's sprinklin' clo'es\," and then—\n\n Read: LOWELL'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1376-1379\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/august.html#aug-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270813 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270814 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Too Close to See the Battle DESCRIPTION:(Battle of Blenheim\, Aug. 13\, 1704.)\n\nEngland and France ca me to battle near Blenheim. Years later the people of Blenheim called it a "famous victory\," but could not tell whose victory it was.\n\nRead: Sout hey's AFTER BLENHEIM and Other Poems Vol. 41\, pp. 732-735\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270814 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270815 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A College Boy Goes to Sea DESCRIPTION:(Dana begins famous two-year voyage\, Aug. 14\, 18 34.)\n\nLeav ing Harvard on account of ill health\, Dana sought adventure and thrilling experience aboard a sailing vessel that rounded Cape Horn. He turned the dangers\, hardships\, and keen joys of a sailor's life into a fascinating story.\n\nRead: Dana's TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 30-37\n\nht tps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270816 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Into Death's Face He Flung This Song DESCRIPTION:(Roland died at Roncesvaux\, Aug. 15\, 778.)\n\nCharlemagne's r ear guard was attacked by the Basques in the valley of Roncesvaux. Roland\ , its leader\, fought a courageous fight\, and\, though conquered\, became immortal.\n\nRead: THE SONG OF ROLAND Vol. 49\, pp. 166-173\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270816 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270817 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Inspiring Ritual of Temple Worship DESCRIPTION:David—the psalm singer—knew the wondrous ways of the Lord a nd praised Him in his psalms. Burdened souls in all ages have found comfor t in these songs that once were used in the gorgeous ritual of Jerusalem's temple.\n\nRead: THE PSALMS Vol. 44\, pp. 286-295\n\nhttps://veritopicon. com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270818 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Three Walls Luther Saw DESCRIPTION:Luther declared that the unreformed church had drawn its doctri nes like three walls so closely about the people that they served not as p rotection but were the cause of untold misery and distress. This he hoped to relieve by the Reformation\,\n\nRead: Luther's ADDRESS TO THE NOBILITY Vol. 36\, pp. 263-275\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html# aug-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270819 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Took Her by the Hair and Dragged Her Up and Down" DESCRIPTION:In Cellini's day the model's life was a hazardous one. Cellini' s Autobiography reveals how some models were treated. You will find it mor e thrilling than the most modern novel.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY V ol. 31\, pp. 312-323\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#a ug-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270819 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270820 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Roses Boiled in Wine DESCRIPTION:Astonishing treatments and cures are related by Ambroise Paré\ , famed surgeon of the fifteenth century. One remedy\, for instance\, used to cure a distinguished nobleman\, was red roses boiled in white wine\, —and it was effective.\n\nRead: Pare's JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES Vol. 3 8\, pp. 50-58\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270821 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: 20) Plot Against Eve DESCRIPTION:("Paradise Lost' published Aug. 20\, 1667.)\n\nDriven from Heav en\, Satan meditated revenge. He decided his greatest opportunity to injur e God was to bring sin to mankind. Satan's plot against Eve is told by Mil ton.\n\nRead: Milton's PARADISE LOST Vol. 4\, pp. 154-164\n\nhttps://verit opicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270822 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Hidden Treasures in an Old Book DESCRIPTION:A certain man was willed a Bible. He scorned the legacy until o ne day\, penniless and downcast\, he turned to the book for consolation. I magine his amazement on finding hundred dollar bills between the pages. St . Augustine explains how he found even greater treasures in the Bible.\n\n Read: CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE Vol. 7\, pp. 118-126\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270822 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270823 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Aboard the Old Sailing Ships DESCRIPTION:In the days when sailing ships plied the seven seas\, common sa ilors were often subject to a brutal captain whose whim was law. Dana\, a Boston college boy\, makes an exciting story of his sea experiences.\n\nRe ad: Dana's TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 99-111\n\nhttps://verit opicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270823 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270824 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Which Is a Beautiful Woman? DESCRIPTION:The Hottentot thinks his wife beautiful. Every American believe s his wife also to be beautiful. But the American and the Hottentot are qu ite different. What\, after all\, is Beauty?\n\nRead: Burke's ON THE SUBLI ME AND BEAUTIFUL Vol. 24\, pp. 78-88\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/august.html#aug-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270824 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270825 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Survivor's Story of Vesuvius DESCRIPTION:(Pliny witnessed eruption of Vesuvius\, Aug. 24\, 79 A. D.) fi : The eruption of Vesuvius that demolished Pompeii and buried thousands of people was witnessed by Pliny. He describes his panic-stricken flight wit h his mother from the doomed villa through falling ashes and sulphurous fu mes. His famous uncle\, the elder Pliny\, lost his life while investigatin g the eruption and aiding refugees.\n\nRead: Pliny's LETTERS Vol. 9\, pp. 284-291\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270826 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Britain Saved by a Full Moon DESCRIPTION:(Kelvin delivers lecture on "Tides\," Aug. 25\, 1882.)\n\nWe to -day know that there is a direct relation between the moon and tides. When Julius Cesar went to conquer Britain his transports were wrecked because he did not know the tides on the English coast\; a knowledge of which migh t have changed the whole course of history.\n\nRead: Kelvin's TIDES Vol. 3 0\, pp. 274-285\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270827 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Prince of Wales Wins His Spurs DESCRIPTION:(Battle of Crecy\, Aug. 26\, 1346.) :\n\nA brilliant victory fo r the English king was gained in this battle a fight in which vast numbers of French nobility\, many princes\, and the aged King John of Bohemia wer e slain. Froissart describes all in detail.\n\nRead: FROISSART'S CHRONICLE S Vol. 35\, pp. 27-33\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html# aug-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270827 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270828 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Priceless Treasures of Memory DESCRIPTION:"A man's a man for a' that." "Should auld acquaintance be forgo t." "To see her is to love her and love but her forever." "Flow gently\, s weet Afton." Every stanza of Burns is treasured. How many have you stored up?\n\nRead: Burns' POEMS AND SONGS Vol. 6\, pp. 317\, 417\, 442\, 511\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270829 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The World's Love Tragedy DESCRIPTION:(Johann Wolfgang Goethe born Aug. 28\, 1749.)\n\n"Almighty God\ , I am undone." With this cry of despair\, Margaret witnessed the fiendish work of Faust\, her lover\, who bartered his immortal soul for worldly pl easure. A thrilling drama\, based on a famous medieval legend.\n\nRead: Go ethe's FAUST Vol. 19\, pp. 158-167\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /august.html#aug-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270829 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270830 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Cleopatra Bewitches Mark Antony DESCRIPTION:(Cleopatra dies after Antony's suicide\, Aug. 29\, 30 B. C.)\n\ nCleopatra rode to meet Antony in a gilded barge with sails of purple\; oa rs of silver beat time to the music of flutes and fifes and harps. She wen t as Venus\, and her attendants were dressed as Cupids and Nymphs.\n\nRead : Plutarch's ANTONY Vol. 12\, pp. 339-349\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readi ng-plan/august.html#aug-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270831 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Simple Life in a Palace DESCRIPTION:Every luxury\, all the wealth in the world at his command—yet Marcus Aurelius\, Emperor of haughty Rome\, led a simple life even ina pa lace. He left his secret in his "Meditations."\n\nRead: Marcus Aurelius' M EDITATIONS Vol. 2\, pp. 222-228\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/au gust.html#aug-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:aug-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270901 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: America's Greatest Thinker DESCRIPTION:(Emerson delivers "American Scholar' lecture\, Aug. 31\, 1837.) \n\nEmerson was included in Dr. Eliot's recent selection of the world's te n greatest educators of all time. Here the great thinker discusses this fo rce within man that makes him a scholar.\n\nRead: Emerson's AMERICAN SCHOL AR Vol. 5\, pp. 5-15\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#a ug-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/august.html#aug-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270902 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Expelled from College\, Founded a City DESCRIPTION:(Penn arrested for preaching in London\, Sept. 1\, 1670.)\n\nWh ile at Oxford\, Penn rejected the student's gown and thereby created a fur ore. Later he founded a city where he sought to put his new ideas into pra ctice.\n\nRead: Penn's SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE Vol. 1\, pp. 321-331\n\nhtt ps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270902 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270903 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Too Great a Price for Love DESCRIPTION:(Battle of Actium\, Sept. 2\, 31 B. C.)\n\nWhile his soldiers f ought the battle of Actium\, Antony fled to the arms of Cleopatra. By his flight he forfeited his right to an empire. Dryden's story of Antony's lov e makes us realize the folly of his infatuation for the Nile siren.\n\nRea d: Dryden's ALL FOR LOVE Vol. 18\, pp. 88-100\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/r eading-plan/september.html#sep-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270903 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270904 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Seven Years to Reach England DESCRIPTION:(Treaty between England and the United States signed Sept. 3\, 1783.)\n\nUntil 1783 the British refused to believe that the Liberty Bell had rung. Then they signed a treaty formally recognizing the Colonies as f ree and independent states.\n\nRead: TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN Vol. 43\, p p. 174-179\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270904 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270905 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Voltaire Criticizes DESCRIPTION:Voltaire's daring courage led him to publish a series of letter s which contained unfavorable comparisons of French customs with the Engli sh. For this he was threatened with the Bastille.\n\nRead: Voltaire's LETT ERS ON THE ENGLISH Vol. 34\, pp. 85-93\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading- plan/september.html#sep-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270905 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270906 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Survival of the Fittest DESCRIPTION:(Darwin first outlines his theory of natural selection\, Sept. (5) 105%)\n\nJust as the individual has a definite length of life\, so hav e species a limited duration. The progress and transition of the world\, D arwin declares\, will see the extinction of certain variants of human life .\n\nRead: Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES Vol. 11 \, pp. 353-357\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270906 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270907 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Pride of All Scotchmen DESCRIPTION:Many sons of Scotland have striven eagerly for the great place held by Sir Walter Scott. Carlyle describes the qualities that combined to make him the idol of his people and the master of historical romance.\n\n Read: Carlyle's SIR WALTER SCOTT Vol. 25\, pp. 393-403\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270908 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: yi The King's Love DESCRIPTION:There she was undoing her hair—the loveliest woman the eyes o f men ever beheld\, the light of wooing in her regal eyes. A longing for h er overwhelmed the warrior-king.\n\nRead: DESTRUCTION OF DA DERGA'S HOSTEL Vol. 49\, pp. 199-209\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.h tml#sep-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270908 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270909 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Europe Lay Under Ice DESCRIPTION:(Helmholtz died Sept. 8\, 1894.)\n\nThere was a time when the s now fell and did not melt in summer. Then from the frozen north there desc ended huge masses of ice that covered northern Europe and most of North Am erica. Glaciers reveal a new world to us.\n\nRead: Helmholtz's ICE AND GLA CIERS Vol. 30\, pp. 211-223\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/septem ber.html#sep-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270909 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270910 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Nature Beckons DESCRIPTION:(Emerson retires from the ministry\, Sept. 9\, 1832.)\n\n"There are days during the year\," says Emerson\, "when the world of nature reac hes perfection." Can anyone escape this call\, especially in the glorious Indian Summer?\n\nRead: Emerson's NATURE Vol. 5\, pp. 223-230\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270910 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270911 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Famous Poet-Physician DESCRIPTION:One of America's famous New Englanders\, Oliver Wendell Holmes\ , devoted his life principally to medicine. His name\, however\, was made famous through his poem\, "Old Ironsides\," by which he saved America's mo st famous battleship from destruction when her fighting days were ended.\n \nRead: Holmes' POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1365-1370\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/r eading-plan/september.html#sep-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270912 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Wages—Why and How Much? DESCRIPTION:What regulates wages\, on what do they depend? Adam Smith\, wor ld's authority on economic problems\, advances his theories on these matte rs.\n\nRead: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS Vol. 10\, pp. 66-74\n\nhttps:/ /veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270913 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Love Letters of Elizabeth Browning DESCRIPTION:(Browning married Elizabeth Barrett\, Sept. 12\, 1846.)\n\nIn a ll literary history there is no happier love story than that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. During their secret courtship Miss Barrett se nt Browning many beautiful love letters written in verse.\n\nRead: SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE Vol. 41\, pp. 923-932\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/read ing-plan/september.html#sep-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270913 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270914 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Good That Came from a Game Pit DESCRIPTION:(John Bunyan liberated and pardoned\, Sept. 13\, 1672.)\n\nFrom cockfighting\, bear baiting\, and like sports\, the wife of John Bunyan c onverted him to a life of humility and reverence. While imprisoned for pre aching\, he used his idle time in writing a fantastic story of a soul's sa lvation—probably the most famous allegory ever written.\n\nRead: Bunyan' s PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Vol. 15\, pp. 13-23\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readin g-plan/september.html#sep-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270915 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dante and St. Peter DESCRIPTION:(Dante died Sept. 14\, 1321.) *\n\nDante\, having journeyed thr ough Hell and Purgatory\, comes at last to St. Peter on his throne. St. Pe ter calls for the aid of St. James and St. John before passing final judgm ent on Dante's righteousness.\n\nRead: Dante's DIVINE COMEDY Vol. 20\, pp. 387-395\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270916 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Refused to Serve Three Terms DESCRIPTION:(George Washington published "Farewell Address\," Sept. 15\, 17 96.)\n\nGeorge Washington retired to private life in 1796\, entrusting "th e preservation of the Union" to the "love of liberty." His last appeal is a vital message to American citizens\, as pertinent today as when he penne d it.\n\nRead: Washington's FAREWELL ADDRESS Vol. 43\, pp. 233-249\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270917 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Penalty for Silence DESCRIPTION:"Such felons as stand mute [do not confess] are pressed to deat h by huge weights laid upon a board that lieth over their breast and a sha rp stone under their backs." Old English punishments\, recorded by Holinsh ed\, make startling reading.\n\nRead: HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES Vol. 35\, pp. 363-370\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270918 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Romance on a New England Farm DESCRIPTION:(Whittier died Sept. 17\, 1892.)\n\n"For of all sad words of to ngue or pen\, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" On this theme Whittier based the story of a fair farmer girl and a rich judge.\n\nRead: WHITTIER'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1351-1364\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readin g-plan/september.html#sep-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270919 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Home After Storms and Adventures DESCRIPTION:(Dana returns from two-year voyage\, Sept. 18\, 18 36.)\n\n"Eve ry sight was full of beauty. We were coming back to our homes\, and the si gns of civilization from which we had been so long banished—" wrote Dana \, as his ship entered Boston Harbor.\n\nRead: Dana's TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 348-356\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/septem ber.html#sep-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270920 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Humor That Survived Slavery DESCRIPTION:(Cervantes ransomed from slavery\, Sept. 19\, 1580.)\n\nHeld as a Moorish slave for five years\, Cervantes was submitted to almost daily tortures. But even the horrors of slavery could not dull his sense of humo r\, as evinced by his most witty and amusing novel.\n\nRead: Cervantes' DO N QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp. 48-54\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/sept ember.html#sep-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270921 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Women's Rights in the Harem DESCRIPTION:(Mohammed arrives at Kuba after "The Flight\,' Sept. 20\, 622.) \n\nThe Koran defines the powers of a husband over his wives. Thus a woman unfaithful to her lord may be walled up alive.\n\nRead: THE KORAN Vol. 45 \, pp. 967-974\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep- 20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270921 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270922 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: fEneas and the Old Witch DESCRIPTION:(Virgil died Sept. 21\, 19 B. C.)\n\nThe Sybil\, an old witch\, personally conducts Eneas through the gate and into the jaws of hell\, wh ere terrors abound on every hand and frightful mysterious forms rule. Ther e he is told of the greatness and glory that was to come.\n\nRead: Virgil' s AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 207-218\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/sep tember.html#sep-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270923 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: oy A King for a Souvenir DESCRIPTION:(Froissart dates Battle of Poitiers\, Sept. 22\, 1356.)\n\nIn t he days when kings rode to battle leading their troops it was possible to make good the boast of the doughboy: "I'll bring you a king for a souvenir ."\n\nRead: FROISSART'S CHRONICLES Vol. 35\, pp. 42-53\n\nhttps://veritopi con.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270924 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dying Concerns Every Man DESCRIPTION:The Romans made an art of dying. The Egyptians looked on death with complacency. Moderns fear it. Montaigne argues that the purpose of ph ilosophy is to teach men how to die.\n\nRead: Montaigne's TO LEARN HOW TO DIE Vol. 32\, pp. 9-22\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.h tml#sep-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270925 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Citizens Lured from Their Homes DESCRIPTION:When the serpent of Minerva disappeared from her temple\, the p riests said that the goddess had left Athens for the sea. Moreover\, the o racles urged the Athenians to seek safety in their ships. Themistocles pro mpted these deceits. Why?\n\nRead: Plutarch's THEMISTOCLES Vol. 12\, pp. 1 3-23\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270926 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Courtship of Twenty Years DESCRIPTION:John Stuart Mill-in his autobiography boldly tells of his love for his friend's wife. After twenty years\, she was freed from her first h usband and was happily married to John Stuart Mill. Read the account of Mi ll's courtship.\n\nRead: Mill's AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 25\, pp. 116-120\, 149\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270926 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270927 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: And the World Rocked with Laughter DESCRIPTION:(Printing of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" licensed\, Sept. 26\, 160 4.)\n\nThe gaunt lunatic\, Don Quixote\, saw the world through glasses col ored with romanticism that had gone out of style hundreds of years before he was born. Cervantes made the world laugh at the exaggerated stories it had been devouring.\n\nRead: Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp. 29-35\n\ nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270928 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pascal's Fundamentals of Religion DESCRIPTION:(Pascal confers with Descartes\, Sept. 27\, 1647.)\n\nTo-day we have Fundamentalists and Modernists\, each striving for the same goal. Pa scal\, two hundred and fifty years ago\, gave his precepts of the fundamen tals of religious thought.\n\nRead: PASCAL'S THOUGHTS Vol. 48\, pp. 181-19 2\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270929 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: He Introduced the Germ DESCRIPTION:(Louis Pasteur died Sept. 28\, 1895.)\n\nProof that germs cause many contagious diseases was established by Louis Pasteur. His discoverie s revolutionized modern science and lessened the ravages of every type of disease.\n\nRead: Pasteur's THE GERM THEORY Vol. 38\, pp. 364-370\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270930 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Prophet of 400 Million People DESCRIPTION:Confucius was a Chinese magistrate in 500 8. c. He lost the fav or of the Emperor and wandered from city to city\, teaching and giving cou nsel. After his death\, Emperor and people alike bowed before his shrine.\ n\nRead: SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS Vol. 44\, pp. 5-14\n\nhttps://veritopicon.co m/reading-plan/september.html#sep-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sep-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271001 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Gentleman According to Emerson DESCRIPTION:(Emerson's first marriage\, Sept. 30\, 1829.)\n\nAn etiquette b ook and a good tailor do not always produce a gentleman—neither does the Social Register include only gentlemen. Emerson by quaint stories tells h ow fashion and manners combine to make that rare product—a gentleman.\n\ nRead: Emerson's MANNERS Vol. 5\, pp. 199-208\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/r eading-plan/september.html#sep-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/september.html#sep-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271002 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Princes To-day and Yesterday DESCRIPTION:(Machiavelli's model prince sent to France as papal legate\, Oc t. 1\, 1498.)\n\nTo-day the chief duty of a prince is to be the nation's f riend maker. Years ago princes desired supreme power and\, by fair means o r foul\, strove for control. Machiavelli was a guide for such ambitious pr inces.\n\nRead: Machiavelli's THE PRINCE Vol. 36\, pp. 36-44\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271003 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Veteran Tells of Indian War DESCRIPTION:(Darwin returns from South America\, Oct. 2\, 1836.)\n\nJust be fore Darwin visited Bahia Blanca\, an Indian insurrection had been ruthles sly put down. A veteran of the Indian war told Darwin how Indians had been treated.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 107-111\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271004 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Good Enough for Chaucer DESCRIPTION:When polite English society conversed in French—considering E nglish a vulgar tongue\, fit only for servants and working people—Chauce r\, nevertheless\, wrote poems in this "vulgar" English\, which charm us b ecause of their quaint words.\n\nRead: CHAUCER'S POEMS Vol. 40\, pp. 11-20 \n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271004 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271005 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: His Mouth Full of Pebbles DESCRIPTION:The man who put pebbles in his mouth and orated to the sea\, sh aved one-half of his head so that he would be obliged to stay at home unti l he had perfected his oratory—a strange method of attaining eminence\, but a successful one.\n\nRead: Plutarch's DEMOSTHENES Vol. 12\, pp. 196-20 5\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271006 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Amateur Athlete in Old Athens DESCRIPTION:A boxer in public games desired to study philosophy at Athens. There were no furnaces to tend\, no tables to wait on\, no books or magazi nes to peddle\, yet this sturdy young Greek managed to work his way throug h college.\n\nRead: Newman's UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS Vol. 28\, pp. 51-61 \n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271007 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Atrocious Spectacle of October 6th DESCRIPTION:Wakened by the death cries of her sentry\, Marie Antoinette\, Q ueen of France\, fled by a secret passage from the fury of a vile mob. The royal family was arrested and taken to Paris to await their fate.\n\nRead : Burke's REVOLUTION IN FRANCE Vol. 24\, pp. 208-217\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271008 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: An Uncanonized American Saint DESCRIPTION:(John Woolman died Oct. 7\, 1772.)\n\nJohn Woolman was the fore most leader of the early Quakers and contributed much to the spiritual lif e of the American Colonies. He was a pioneer in the crusade against slaver y.\n\nRead: THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN Vol. 1\, pp. 283-288\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271009 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Fielding's Parody Becomes History DESCRIPTION:(Henry Fielding died Oct. 8\, 1754.)\n\nFielding wrote a length y story to burlesque a novel of Richardson. But the travesty overshot its mark. Instead of a mere parody\, it became a masterpiece.\n\nRead: Fieldin g's PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS Vol. 39\, pp. 176-181\n\nhttps://veritopicon .com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271010 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Songs Shake the Walls of Jericho DESCRIPTION:(Newman\, author of "Lead\, Kindly Light\,' baptized Oct. 9\, 1 845.)\n\nDo you know that many of your favorite hymns have echoed for hund reds of years through vast cathedrals\, and resounded from the walls of Je richo during the Crusades?\n\nRead: LATIN HYMNS Vol. 45\, pp. 546-556\; al so pp. 567-568\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271011 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Fugitive in Boy's Clothes DESCRIPTION:(Cervantes aided in the capture of Tunis\, Oct. 10\, 1573.)\n\n The romance-stricken Don Quixote sees a fair youth seated by the side of a stream\, "his feet like two crystals\, his hands like snowflakes." The yo uth was a charming girl!\n\nRead: Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE Vol. 14\, pp. 252 -266\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271011 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271012 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Aeneas Flees from an Inconsolable Love DESCRIPTION:ZEneas\, mythological founder of the Roman race\, leaving Carth age and its lovely Queen Dido\, was driven by a storm to the coast of Sici ly. There the hospitality of King Acestes helped him to forget his relingu ished love.\n\nRead: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 178-188\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271013 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Columbus' Letter Miraculously Found DESCRIPTION:(Columbus Day.) } \;\n\nHistorical documents\, now priceless\, were often used as wrapping paper. Rescued by chance was a letter of Colum bus telling of his voyages—of the amazing bargains made with timid nativ es— of Amazon women who fought like men and made marriage treaties with cannibals.\n\nRead: LETTER OF COLUMBUS Vol. 43\, pp. 21-27\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271014 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pagan Virtue Perpetuated DESCRIPTION:A man of virtue\, although a pagan\, Marcus Aurelius ruled with benevolence and wisdom. Cruel in persecution of Christians as lawbreakers \, no trace of this sternness appears in his writings.\n\nRead: Marcus Aur elius' MEDITATIONS Vol. 2\, pp. 193-199\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading -plan/october.html#oct-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271015 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: No Spice and Little Gold DESCRIPTION:All colonies are founded to gain territory or treasure. Spain e xpected spice and gold from Columbus's expedition\, but got no spice and l ittle gold. Adam Smith tells the true motive of the colonizing Greeks\, Ro mans\, English\, and Spaniards.\n\nRead: Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS Vo l. 10\, pp. 395-404\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#o ct-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271016 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: First Families of America DESCRIPTION:(Amerigo Vespucci returns from first American voyage\, Oct. 15\ , 1498.)\n\n"They are a people smooth and clean of body because of continu ally washing themselves—they eat all their enemies whom they kill or cap ture." Amerigo Vespucci thus writes of the New World inhabitants.\n\nRead: VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGE Vol. 43\, pp. 28-44\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271017 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Medicine Was a Mystery DESCRIPTION:Once physicians treated the sick with a mixture of medicine and charms. In those days medicine was regarded as a dark art like magic\, an d those practicing it formed guilds to protect themselves.\n\nRead: HIPPOC RATES' OATH AND LAW Vol. 38\, pp. 3-5\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-p lan/october.html#oct-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271018 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Reason His Only Religion DESCRIPTION:(Browne visited by Evelyn of "Evelyn Diary\," Oct. 17\, 1671.)\ n\nThe religion of Thomas Browne—a liberal man in a most intolerant time —was not taken from either Rome or Geneva\, but from his own reason.\n\n Read: Browne's RELIGIO MEDICI Vol. 3\, pp. 253-265\n\nhttps://veritopicon. com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271019 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: If Winter Comes' DESCRIPTION:From the title of a recently popular novel\, we know that one p rominent fiction writer of to-day was inspired by the verses of Shelley. M any others have also felt the stirring vigor of his poetry. What is your r eaction?\n\nRead: SHELLEY'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 829-835\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271020 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Virtue in Smiles DESCRIPTION:(James Henry Leigh Hunt born Oct. 19\, 1784.)\n\nWeep if you mu st. It is far better than to repress your tears. But Leigh Hunt finds grea ter virtue in cheerfulness. Fanciful and graceful—his writings exerted a wholesome influence on all nineteenth century journalism.\n\nRead: Hunt's ESSAYS Vol. 27\, pp. 285-295\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/octo ber.html#oct-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271021 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Odysseus Adrift on a Raft DESCRIPTION:The gods met in council and decreed that Odysseus be set adrift . Poseidon\, God of the Sea\, shattered the raft and Odysseus was cast ash ore to encounter further adventures.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEUS Vol. 22\, p p. 68-80\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271022 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: No Fault to Find with Old Age DESCRIPTION:Cicero agrees with Browning that old age is the golden time of life\, when the fruits of a well-spent life are harvested. Cicero\, the wi se Roman\, welcomed old age for its gifts: wisdom\, sound judgment\, and c ontentment.\n\nRead: Cicero's ON OLD AGE Vol. 9\, pp. 45-56\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271023 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Swift's Love Problems DESCRIPTION:Swift was embarrassed by two women\; Stella\, whom he really lo ved\, and Vanessa\, with whom he had flirted and who had taken him serious ly. Marriage to either one would break the heart of the other.\n\nRead: Th ackeray's JONATHAN SWIFT Vol. 28\, pp. 23-28\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/october.html#oct-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271024 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Cesar Turned the Tables DESCRIPTION:When only a boy\, Czsar was captured by pirates. While awaiting ransom he entered into every sport and game with them. Once freed\, he qu ickly returned with forces that captured the outlaws. Then he took deliber ate revenge.\n\nRead: Plutarch's CAESAR Vol. 12\, pp. 264-273\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271025 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Clytemnestra Meets Her Rival DESCRIPTION:Zou Cassandra knew through a prophetic vision that a sword woul d pierce her heart. Agamemnon\, her captor\, took her to his home where an avenging wife\, Clytemnestra\, awaited. The tragedies of the doom that re quited the sins of the House of Atreus are among the most powerful ever wr itten.\n\nRead: Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Vol. 8\, pp. 52-64\n\nhttps://veritop icon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271026 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: t Greatly Encouraged Intrigue DESCRIPTION:(Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay born Oct. 25\, 1800.)\n\nAfter the publication of Machiavelli's "The Prince\," the Sultans became more ad dicted to strangling their brothers\, tyrants became more merciless\, and murderous plots increased. The influence of that book\, as Macaulay points out\, spread over Europe and Asia.\n\nRead: Macaulay's MACHIAVELLI Vol. 2 7\, pp. 363-372\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-2 5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271026 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271027 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Franklin Learned the Secret DESCRIPTION:(Franklin made U. S. plenipotentiary in France\, Aug. 26\, 1778 .)\n\nPoor at twenty\, rich at forty\, internationally famous at fifty. Be njamin Franklin once walked the streets of Philadelphia alone\, poor\, and with no education. Yet he rose to be a leader because he learned the secr et of careful reading.\n\nRead: Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 1\, pp. 14-2 1\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271028 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Fruit of Seven Years' Silence DESCRIPTION:Siddhartha Gautama\, who became the god Buddha\, renounced the world and spent seven years in meditation. Then one day\, while sitting un der a fig tree\, he became inspired with exalted and sublime conceptions o f life and death. The rest of his life was spent in teaching and convertin g mankind.\n\nRead: BUDDHIST WRITINGS Vol. 45\, pp. 661-674\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271029 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How Dice Taught Spelling DESCRIPTION:(John Locke died Oct. 28\, 1704.)\n\nLocke taught children by m eans of games. He tells of a game whereby children were taught to spell wi th dice on which the letters of the alphabet were pasted. This was more th an 200 years before modern kindergarten methods. Today's children would re spond to such wise direction as Locke recommends.\n\nRead: SOME THOUGHTS C ONCERNING EDUCATION Vol. 37\, pp. 128-136\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readi ng-plan/october.html#oct-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271029 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271030 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Genius Rises from a Stable DESCRIPTION:(John Keats born Oct. 29\, 1795.) :\n\nThough the son of a stab le man\, John Keats wrote the most exquisite and sublime poetry in our lan guage. He was the friend of Shelley\, Lord Byron\, and the other literary leaders of the time— his genius recognized by all.\n\nRead: KEATS' POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 874-882\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.htm l#oct-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271031 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Geology's Greatest Benefactor DESCRIPTION:Lyell has been called the founder of modern geology. Darwin\, t he master scientist\, called him "Geology's Greatest Benefactor." Lyell's research revolutionized ideas on that subject.\n\nRead: Lyell's THE PROGRE SS OF GEOLOGY Vol. 38\, pp. 385-391\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pla n/october.html#oct-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:oct-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271031 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271101 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Witches Walk To-night DESCRIPTION:(All Hallows' Eve.) '\n\nBeware of magic! Once a year uneasy sp irits are released and walk the earth from midnight until dawn. Spooks and goblins invade the most secure homes and the canniest must watch out for danger lurking in every dark corner.\n\nRead: BURNS' POEMS Vol. 6\, pp. 11 0-119\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/october.html#oct-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271102 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Last Strokes of Shakespeare's Pen DESCRIPTION:("The Tempest" performed at Queen Elizabeth's court\, Nov. 1\, 1611.)\n\nMonsters of the earth\, weird creatures of the air\, magic roman ce\, and shipwreck are mingled by a master hand in his thrilling drama. Th e fanciful\, enchanting "Tempest" is the last work of the great bard of St ratford.\n\nRead: Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST Vol. 46\, pp. 397-410\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271103 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Journey Through a Hot Country DESCRIPTION:Dante recorded the awful scenes of a journey through the pits o f the underworld\, and wrote in such a vivid\, realistic way that men trem ble at the terrors depicted.\n\nRead: Dante's DIVINE COMEDY Vol. 20\, pp. 13-20\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271104 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Letters to an Emperor DESCRIPTION:Pliny sought the advice of the Emperor Trajan for dealing with the Christians who were alarmingly on the increase. He casually relates ho w he had tortured two Christians.\n\nRead: Pliny's LETTERS Vol. 9\, pp. 40 4-406\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271105 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Gold or Glory? DESCRIPTION:Polyeucte\, an Armenian noble\, wanted to become a Christian. I f he were baptized\, he would have to give up his high position\, his weal th and his pagan wife. Was the heavenly crown worth this sacrifice?\n\nRea d: Corneille's POLYEUCTE Vol. 26\, pp. 87-97\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/re ading-plan/november.html#nov-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271106 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Costly Opinion on Divorce DESCRIPTION:A divorce always means trouble for some one. So with Sir Thomas More when he refused to agree with King Henry over the king's separation. More was made to pay one of the highest prices ever paid for a difference of opinion.\n\nRead: Roper's LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE Vol. 36\, pp. 89-99\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271107 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Genius Needs Few Tools DESCRIPTION:(Faraday sends "Experimental Researches" to Royal Society\, Nov . 6\, 1845.)\n\nTwo sticks\, a table\, and a pail were the commonplace imp lements used by Michael Faraday to demonstrate great scientific truths.\n\ nRead: Faraday's FORCE OF GRAVITATION Vol. 30\, pp. 13-21\n\nhttps://verit opicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271108 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Voice from a Stone-Dead City DESCRIPTION:Suddenly all the sinful city's inhabitants were turned to stone . When a beautiful woman from Bagdad came to the dead city\, night overtoo k her there. Sleeping in the palace\, she was awakened by a man's voice ca lling.\n\nRead: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 16\, pp. 100-107\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271109 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Blind But Unconquered DESCRIPTION:(John Milton died Nov. 8\, 1674.)\n\nMilton's indomitable coura ge kept him at his work even after he lost his sight. Blind\, he dictated a sequel to his "Paradise Lost\," which he called "Paradise Regained."\n\n Read: Milton's PARADISE REGAINED Vol. 4\, pp. 359-369\n\nhttps://veritopic on.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271110 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Once War Songs\, Now Pious Prayers DESCRIPTION:The Psalms have been an inspiration to men in many ages. They h ave become so associated with the peaceful spirit of Christianity that we forget some of them were once war songs and songs of triumph.\n\nRead: THE PSALMS Vol. 44\, pp. 318-327\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/nove mber.html#nov-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271111 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: A Poet Who Piped for His Supper DESCRIPTION:(Oliver Goldsmith born Nov. 10\, 1728.)\n\nGoldsmith traveled t hrough Belgium\, France\, and Italy\, winning his daily bread by playing a t farmhouses. He wrote the most brilliant comedy\, the best novel\, and th e finest poem of his age.\n\nRead: Goldsmith's THE DESERTED VILLAGE Vol. 4 1\, pp. 509-520\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov- 10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271112 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: America's Doughboy Glorified DESCRIPTION:(Armistice Day) \;\n\nThe youth of America—typified in the do ughboy of the past war—was gloriously portrayed by Walt Whitman. He also sang of the vast plains and the beauty of America.\n\nRead: WHITMAN'S POE MS Vol. 42\, pp. 1402-1412\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/novembe r.html#nov-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271113 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Story of the First Dresses DESCRIPTION:(John Milton married second wife\, Nov. 12\, 1656.)\n\nMilton's version tells how the Serpent induced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Eve offered it to Adam. Then they became conscious for the first time that th ey were not clothed.\n\nRead: Milton's PARADISE LOST Vol. 4\, pp. 278-290\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271114 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: When Carthage Was Monte Carlo DESCRIPTION:(St. Augustine born Nov. 13\, 354.)\n\nCarthage was the playgro und of the ancient world. In that city of many sins\, Augustine was a lead er of the revels. His conversion to Christianity amazed those who knew him .\n\nRead: CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE Vol. 7\, pp. 31-38\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271115 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: He Worried About It DESCRIPTION:(Sir Charles Lyell born Nov. 14\, 1797.)\n\nWe wonder if the ma n who worried about the "scientifical" prediction that "The sun's heat wil l give out in ten million years more\," had read Lyell on the gradual chan ges in the earth's surface.\n\nRead: Lyell's UNIFORMITY OF CHANGE Vol. 38\ , pp. 398-405\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271116 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Food Profiteers 300 Years Ago DESCRIPTION:(Sale of corn and flour regulated in Milan\, Nov. 15\, 1629.)\n \nFood profiteering was as active in.plague-stricken Milan 300 years ago a s in modern times. Shops were stormed for food. Read how the Council strov e heroically to fix fair rates.\n\nRead: Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI Vol. 2 1\, pp. 450-460\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov- 15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271117 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Just Before the Gold Rush DESCRIPTION:When the glorious Western coast was only partly settled\, Dana visited the Presidios. He saw frontier life at a time when Spanish splendo r still gilded California.\n\nRead: TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp . 164-168\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271118 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: At Thirty Scott Began to Write DESCRIPTION:(Scott writes dedication of "Ivanhoe\," Nov. 17\, 1817.)\n\nAre you curious about famous people\, their lives\, habits\, personalities? C arlyle discusses the intimate life of his illustrious countryman\, and rev eals Scott\, the man\, and Scott\, the genius who entertained Christendom with his stories.\n\nRead: Carlyle's SIR WALTER SCOTT Vol. 25\, pp. 410-42 0\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271119 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Apple or Son the Arrow's Mark DESCRIPTION:(William Tell incident\, legendary date\, Nov. 18\, 1307.)\n\nT he arrow shot from his bow with a twang and whizzed through the air. Tell covered his eyes\, fearing to see where the arrow hit. Then the shout of t riumph\, a shout of the people and not of the tyrant—but the end was not yet.\n\nRead: Schiller's WILHELM TELL Vol. 26\, pp. 441-449\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271120 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: No Man Knows His Resting Place DESCRIPTION:(Queen Victoria appointed Tennyson poet laureate\, Nov. 19\, 18 50.)\n\nA barge with black sails bearing three black robed queens with cro wns of gold carried away the dying King Arthur. Will they bring him back a nd fulfill Merlin's prophecy?\n\nRead: Tennyson's MORTE D'ARTHUR Vol. 42\, pp. 986-992\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271121 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Old Stories Ever New DESCRIPTION:When the cold winds howled about the thatched huts of the Germa n peasant\, the mother drew her children to her side and told them stories . Collected and retold by the Grimm brothers\, these stories have perennia l charm.\n\nRead: GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES Vol. 17\, pp. 90-98\n\nhttps://verit opicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271122 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Bargains in Wives DESCRIPTION:(Voltaire ill with smallpox\, Nov.\, 1723.)\n\nThe beautiful da ughters of the Circassians were in demand for the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan. Voltaire tells how these beauties were protected from smallpox ce nturies before modern vaccination.\n\nRead: Voltaire's LETTERS Vol. 34\, p p. 93-97\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271123 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How a Queen Died for Love DESCRIPTION:Deserted by her lover\, Queen Dido applied to her heart the onl y balm that could ease her pain.\n\nRead: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 16 7-177\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271124 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Less Than Star Dust DESCRIPTION:(Pascal begins writing his "Thoughts\," Nov. 23\, 1654.)\n\nAcc ording to Pascal\, a man is not even as significant as a speck of star dus t in the universe. Pascal's thoughts on the subject are startling to the m odern reader\, and they furnish rich food for the imagination.\n\nRead: PA SCAL'S THOUGHTS Vol. 48\, pp. 26-36\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pla n/november.html#nov-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271125 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Book that Upset Tennessee DESCRIPTION:("Origin of Species" published Nov. 24\, 1859.)\n\nThe signal f or the beginning of a great controversy\, still raging\, was the publicati on of Darwin's "Origin of Species." This was the first complete statement of the evolution theory\, which had been privately advanced but never publ icly taught. A new epoch in science dates from this great work.\n\nRead: D arwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES Vol. 11\, pp. 23-30\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/r eading-plan/november.html#nov-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271126 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Cupid as a Shoemaker DESCRIPTION:We are indebted to Thomas Dekker for one of the most humorous c haracters in all Elizabethan literature\; namely\, Simon Eyre\, an old sho emaker whose affairs became hilariously involved with those of the gentry. \n\nRead: Dekker's THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY Vol. 47\, pp. 469-483\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271127 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Shakespeare Should Be Heard DESCRIPTION:Charles Lamb\, favorite essayist\, thought that no stage could do justice to Shakespeare's tragedies. He advocated reading the plays\, an d with the imagination costuming the players and building the gorgeous sce nery in a way equaled by no scene painter or costumer.\n\nRead: Lamb ON TH E TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE Vol. 27\, pp. 299-310\n\nhttps://veritopicon.co m/reading-plan/november.html#nov-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271128 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Land is This? DESCRIPTION:In wondrous Utopia pearls and precious stones were used as play things for little children. Gold rings and bracelets were only worn by out casts\, while great golden chains shackled criminals and felons. When amba ssadors from foreign lands came in fine raiment\, the Utopians treated the plainest dressed as the greatest\; the others seemed to them like childre n.\n\nRead: Sir Thomas More's UTOPIA Vol. 36\, pp. 191-204\n\nhttps://veri topicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271129 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Poems Made from Visions DESCRIPTION:(William Blake born Nov. 28\, 1757.)\n\n"To see a world in a gr ain of sand\, and a heaven in a wild flower—" Such was the exaltation of the mysticism of William Blake\, who reflected in his poetry the ecstasy of his visions. Simplicity is the keynote of his genius.\n\nRead: BLAKE'S POEMS Vol. 41\, pp. 583-592\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/novemb er.html#nov-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271130 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How Ideas Originate DESCRIPTION:Did you ever stop to think just how you thought? What inner emo tions\, what outer influences make up the fathomless depths of mind and in tellect? Hume explains how we draw our thoughts\, then clumsily put them i nto tangible shape called ideas.\n\nRead: Hume's OF THE ORIGIN OF IDEAS Vo l. 37\, pp. 299-303\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html# nov-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:nov-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271201 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Don'ts" for Conversation DESCRIPTION:(Jonathan Swift born Nov. 30\, 1667.)\n\nTo harp on one's illne sses\, giving all the symptoms and circumstances\, has been a blemish on c onversation for ages. Two hundred years ago Swift complained of persons wh o continually talked about themselves.\n\nRead: Swift's ESSAY ON CONVERSAT ION Vol. 27\, pp. 91-98\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.h tml#nov-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/november.html#nov-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-1-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271202 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Are Skeptics Faulty Thinkers? DESCRIPTION:Offhand we say a skeptic is one who doubts everything. But does he? And are his doubts caused by too much learning\, or too little? Berke ley presents both sides of skepticism.\n\nRead: Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES Vol. 37\, pp. 189-199\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.ht ml#dec-1 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-1 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-2-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271203 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Practical Jokes in King Arthur's Day DESCRIPTION:Attacked in fun by two masked knights\, Sir Galahad smote one s o that both horse and rider went down. Turning on the other jester\, he sl ashed open his helmet.\n\nRead: THE HOLY GRAIL Vol. 35\, pp. 128-134\n\nht tps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-2 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-2 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-3-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271204 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Met the Gods of Ten Thousand Worlds DESCRIPTION:After three awesome messengers have issued three warnings\, the gods of ten thousand worlds decide who is to be the new Buddha. Then the parents\, the conception\, the birth of the god-child demand constant vigi lance.\n\nRead: THE BIRTH OF THE BUDDHA Vol. 45\, pp. 603-612\n\nhttps://v eritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-3 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-3 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-4-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271205 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Queen Weds a Poor Stranger DESCRIPTION:fEneas and Dido\, world-famous lovers\, while hunting in the fo rest\, were trapped in a cave by a furious storm. There the marriage betwe en the proud African queen and the homeless wanderer was completed.\n\nRea d: Virgil's AENEID Vol. 13\, pp. 152-162\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readin g-plan/december.html#dec-4 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-4 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-5-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271206 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Poems by an Artist's Model DESCRIPTION:(Christina Georgina Rossetti born Dec. 5\, 18 30.)\n\nSo beauti ful that many painters sought her for a model— Christina Rossetti\, sist er of the famous poet\, Dante Rossetti\, combined with her unusual beauty a rare poetic sense.\n\nRead: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 118 1-1183\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-5 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-5 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-6-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271207 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Moralizing as a Seductive Art DESCRIPTION:(Last issue of "The Spectator" published Dec. 6\, 1712.)\n\n"Th e Vision of Mirza" and "Westminster Abbey\," first printed in "The Spectat or\," are examples of Addison's wondrous gift of expression. He leads us t o higher realms.\n\nRead: Addison's ESSAYS Vol. 27\, pp. 73-80\n\nhttps:// veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-6 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-6 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-7-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271208 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: What Cicero Least Expected DESCRIPTION:(Cicero slain by Mark Antony's soldiers\, Dec. 7\, 43 B. C.)\n\ nAfter being governor of Sicily\, Cicero returned to Rome expecting a hero 's welcome. When he asked what the Romans thought of his recent achievemen ts\, he received an astounding answer.\n\nRead: Plutarch's CICERO Vol. 12\ , pp. 222-231\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-7 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-7 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-8-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271209 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dream Women Shaped His Destiny DESCRIPTION:(Thomas De Quincy died Dec. 8\, 1859.)\n\nDe Quincy imagined th at three women were sent to him so that he might know the depths of his so ul. Real women could not have wielded greater influence. It is fortunate t hat everyone does not meet these weird women.\n\nRead: LEVANA AND OUR LADI ES OF SORROW Vol. 27\, pp. 319-325\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /december.html#dec-8 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-8 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-9-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271210 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Slavery's Last Stand DESCRIPTION:By the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 stringent laws were made to p revent assistance being given to any slaves attempting to escape. The anti slavery answer to these laws was a perfection of the "Underground Railroad ."\n\nRead: THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT Vol. 43\, pp. 306-312\n\nhttps://verito picon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-9 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-9 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-10-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271211 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Benvenuto Boasts of Gallantry DESCRIPTION:Taking offense at a soldier who made advances toward his favori te lady\, Cellini jumped from the window\, knife in hand\, to avenge himse lf. This incident was recorded with characteristic conceit by Cellini in h is amazing diary.\n\nRead: CELLINI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Vol. 31\, pp. 62-72\n\n https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-10 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-10 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-11-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271212 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Most Dashing Figure in Athens DESCRIPTION:The handsome Alcibiades\, cunning in politics\, bold in war\, w as the lion of Athenian society until he violated the secrets of a mysteri ous religious cult. Then all outraged Athens united to dash their idol to the ground.\n\nRead: Plutarch's ALCIBIADES Vol. 12\, pp. 106-117\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-11 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-11 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-12-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271213 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How the Glorious News was Carried to Aix DESCRIPTION:(Robert Browning died Dec. 12\, 1889.)\n\nThree brave men began the heroic ride from Ghent to Aix. Only one man arrived to tell the thril ling story of the tempestuous ride. In one of his most bewitching poems\, in lines that haunt the memory\, Browning retells the story.\n\nRead: BROW NING'S POEMS Vol. 42\, pp. 1066-1068\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-pl an/december.html#dec-12 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-12 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-13-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271214 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: To the South Seas with the Gallant Drake DESCRIPTION:(Sir Francis Drake embarked for South Seas\, Dec. 13\, 1577-)\n \nA famous voyage was Sir Francis Drake's around the world. Drake's crew\, the first white men to visit many parts of the world\, received amazing r eceptions from the natives.\n\nRead: DRAKE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Vol. 3 3\, pp. 199-208\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec- 13 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-13 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-14-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271215 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Pastoral Poems and Politics DESCRIPTION:(Marvell entered Cambridge\, Dec. 14\, 1633.)\n\nThe many-sided Marvell\, who wielded a pen that was both feared and courted\, is seen at his best in stirring verse. "A Garden\," "Prospect of Flowers\," with the "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell\," show the power of his genius.\n\nRead: MAR VELL'S POEMS Vol. 40\, pp. 370-379\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan /december.html#dec-14 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-14 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-15-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271216 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Odysseus Talks with Ghosts DESCRIPTION:This is another of those marvelous and unforgetable tales of th e wandering Odysseus. The fantasy takes him into regions where he discours es with deceased heroes.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEY Vol. 22\, pp. 145-153\n\ nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-15 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-15 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-16-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271217 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: How Man's Courtship Differs from Animal's DESCRIPTION:Beauty is an important factor in the attraction between man and woman. It is knowing beauty that differentiates man from the animals\, wh ich only require that their mates be of the same species.\n\nRead: Burke's THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL Vol. 24\, pp. 37-48\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/ reading-plan/december.html#dec-16 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-16 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-17-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271218 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dies on the Eve of Her Son's Conversion DESCRIPTION:The mother of St. Augustine prayed unceasingly for her son's co nversion. The most touching\, most soul-revealing writing St. Augustine di d is in the description of his mother's death.\n\nRead: CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE Vol. 7\, pp. 150-160\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/de cember.html#dec-17 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-17 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-18-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271219 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: For a Gentleman DESCRIPTION:Every schoolboy asks: "What's the use of learning Latin?" John Locke\, one of the greatest educators of all time\, maintains that Latin i s absolutely essential to a well-bred gentleman\, and explains why.\n\nRea d: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION Vol. 37\, pp. 136-145\n\nhttps://ver itopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-18 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-18 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-19-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271220 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Samson Finds a Champion DESCRIPTION:(Milton released from prison\, Dec. 19\, 1660.)\n\nThe mighty S amson was blinded while a captive of the Philistines. He sought revenge— a revenge devastating and costly. Milton\, himself a giant of intellect\, blind and imprisoned\, wrote of this sightless giant of other days.\n\nRea d: Milton's SAMSON AGONISTES Vol. 4\, pp. 444-459\n\nhttps://veritopicon.c om/reading-plan/december.html#dec-19 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-19 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-20-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271221 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Egypt Visited by the First Reporter DESCRIPTION:All phases of life were pictured by Herodotus in his history. L ike a modern newspaper reporter\, he combines weird stories\, scandals\, a nd battle accounts with descriptions of places\, persons\, and sights abou t town.\n\nRead: Herodotus' AN ACCOUNT OF EGYPT Vol. 33\, pp. 7-17\n\nhttp s://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-20 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-20 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-21-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271222 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Madam Bubble" Not to Be Discouraged DESCRIPTION:(John Bunyan made leader of Non-Conformist congregation\, Dec. 21\, 1671.)\n\n"Madam Bubble\," or this vain world\, presented both hersel f and her purse to the wayfarer. Repulsed and scorned\, yet she serenely f launts her bribes enticingly before his bewildered eyes.\n\nRead: Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Vol. 15\, pp. 306-318\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/readi ng-plan/december.html#dec-21 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-21 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-22-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271223 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Rubbing Noses in New Zealand DESCRIPTION:(Darwin visits New Zealand natives\, Dec. 22\, 1835.)\n\nDarwin \, in exploring New Zealand\, finds cannibalism\, tattooing\, and many wei rd customs among the natives. Instead of shaking hands\, the salutation is by rubbing noses.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 42 5-434\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-22 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-22 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-23-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271224 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Saved from a Bonfire of Books DESCRIPTION:(Sainte-Beuve born Dec. 23\, 1804.)\n\nIf all the books in the world were on fire\, some men would risk their lives to save certain price less writings: the world's classics. Sainte-Beuve here tells why.\n\nRead: Sainte-Beuve's WHAT IS A CLASSIC? Vol. 32\, pp. 121-133\n\nhttps://verito picon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-23 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-23 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-24-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271225 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Christmas Made a Dull Day DESCRIPTION:Before the Reformation in England almost every third day was a holy day. But the Puritans abolished all the holy days\, even Christmas.\n \nRead: HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES Vol. 35\, pp. 266-270\n\nhttps://veritopico n.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-24 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-24 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-25-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271226 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: The Christmas Story DESCRIPTION:(Christmas Day.)\n\nLuke was a Greek physician\, a man of cultu re\, trained in the best universities of the ancient world. He became imbu ed with the spirit of Christ\, and wrote the most beautiful story of the b irth and life of Jesus.\n\nRead: GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE Vol. 44\, pp. 357-360\ n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-25 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-25 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-26-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271227 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Silence Cost Her a Kingdom DESCRIPTION:("King Lear' presented at Queen Elizabeth's court\, Dec. 26\, 1 606.)\n\nCordelia\, daughter of old King Lear\, could not convince her fat her of her love for him. Afterward\, when misfortunes made him accept her aid\, he learned too late of her real devotion.\n\nRead: Shakespeare's KIN G LEAR Vol. 46\, pp. 288-300\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/decem ber.html#dec-26 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-26 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-27-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271228 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Million-Year-Old Islands DESCRIPTION:(Charles Darwin begins voyage in the "Beagle\,' Dec. 27\, 1831. )\n\nIt was the new-old lands that Darwin visited on his voyage of the "Be agle." The strange specimens of prehistoric life he saw there made the wor ld gape and shudder.\n\nRead: Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE Vol. 29\, pp. 376-389\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-27 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-27 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-28-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271229 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Ho! for the Spanish Main! DESCRIPTION:Drake with a fleet of twenty-five ships and twenty-three hundre d men sets sail to plunder and lay waste Spain's treasure hoards in the Ne w World. Gold and silver bar\, nuggets and jewels awaited the bold adventu rers. \,\n\nRead: DRAKE'S GREAT ARMADA Vol. 33\, pp. 229-240\n\nhttps://ve ritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-28 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-28 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-29-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271230 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: These Guests Outstayed Their Welcome DESCRIPTION:After twenty years' absence\, Odysseus returned home to find hi s house filled with strangers rioting and wasting his treasure. Crafty Ody sseus\, with the aid of his son and the gods\, devised a bold plan to rid his home of the unwelcome guests.\n\nRead: Homer's ODYSSEY Vol. 22\, pp. 2 96-309\n\nhttps://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-29 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-29 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-30-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20271231 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Dana Meets a Tattooed Sailor DESCRIPTION:Dana's description of the picturesque\, pre-gold-rush Californi a is unique. While he was on the Pacific coast he met a British sailor who was elaborately tattooed and of an unforgetable appearance and personalit y.\n\nRead: Dana's TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST Vol. 23\, pp. 77-86\n\nhttps: //veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-30 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-30 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dec-31-2027@veritopicon.com DTSTAMP:20261003T000000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20271231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20280101 SUMMARY:15 Minutes: Curiosity and Interest as Guides to Reading DESCRIPTION:The most unhappy man\, Carlyle says\, is the man who has no rea l work—no interest in life. To avoid this miserable state\, he advises f aithful and diligent reading along the lines dictated by curiosity and int erest.\n\nRead: Carlyle's INAUGURAL ADDRESS Vol. 25\, pp. 364-374\n\nhttps ://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-31 URL:https://veritopicon.com/reading-plan/december.html#dec-31 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR